Can watching a category watch all its subcategories as well?

[schungx (Stephen Chung)]

This question is similar to:

@codinghorror

Mixing a couple things here, I am unclear. Do you mean category or sub category? As in “they get notified of any new topics in the category and all its subcategories, too?”

in

https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-get-notification-of-all-new-topics-of-a-category/4496

but it doesn’t seem to have a resolution yet. Subcategories seem to be only used for:

1. Organization purposes
2. Getting list of Latest