# Category topic list page shows category as "Watching" when no explicit status has been set

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-topic-list-page-shows-category-as-watching-when-no-explicit-status-has-been-set/76980>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [30 Dicembre 2017, 3:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-topic-list-page-shows-category-as-watching-when-no-explicit-status-has-been-set/76980 "2017-12-30T15:09:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![gerhard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/gerhard/32/119479_2.png) [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)\
**Post date:** [30 Dicembre 2017, 7:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-topic-list-page-shows-category-as-watching-when-no-explicit-status-has-been-set/76980/6 "2017-12-30T19:39:43Z")

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Thanks for reporting. This happened only when you navigated to the category from the categories page. It worked when you visited the category by entering it’s URL in the browser’s address bar.

[FIX: return regular notification level for categories when not set by… · discourse/discourse@38269c4 · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/38269c416d96b8f0b32bb6fbbce54048f5173a7f)

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