# Can watching a category watch all its subcategories as well?

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**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [2017年九月4日 01:38 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-watching-a-category-watch-all-its-subcategories-as-well/69306 "2017-09-04T01:38:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![schungx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/schungx/32/70989_2.png) [@schungx](https://meta.discourse.org/u/schungx)\
**Post date:** [2017年九月8日 03:46 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-watching-a-category-watch-all-its-subcategories-as-well/69306/2 "2017-09-08T03:46:59Z")

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This question is similar to:

> [@codinghorror](#):
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> 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](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`

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