# Changing Username Stops Email Notifications **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-username-stops-email-notifications/69799 **Category:** Support **Created:** [2017年九月11日 09:49 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-username-stops-email-notifications/69799 "2017-09-11T09:49:09Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 26
### Author: ![JamesNorth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jamesnorth/32/283740_2.png) [@JamesNorth](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JamesNorth) #### Post date: [2017年九月30日 05:43 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-username-stops-email-notifications/69799/26 "2017-09-30T05:43:06Z")
Turns out this was being caused by the fact that **watching categories just wasn’t working properly for a while**. > [@User profile watch/track/mute options not persisted](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-profile-watch-track-mute-options-not-persisted/71006): > > I believe it is the latest beta that has this problem. AFAIK all user profile options can be saved and persisted, EXCEPT for: Watched Categories Tracked Categories Watching First Post Categories Muted Categories Watched Tags Tracked Tags Watching First Post Tags Muted Tags Muted Users work fine. Pressing Save Changes will send the correct REST PUT command. Came back with 200 and “Saved!” right next to the button. Thus, to the web app, the settings have been changed… Can be closed and I won’t be _watching_ it anymore! --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-username-stops-email-notifications/69799)._