To later visitors looking for help: You can be notified of new releases by subscribing to the RSS feed: Release Notes RSS Feed (Direct Link) RSS Discussion | “New Version Notifications” | Discourse I’ve come to support to give a heads-up that I subscribed to release-notes at the Watching First P…

It looks like the solution is in the split topic. :arrow_up:

[image] Michael: I subscribed to release-notes at the Watching First Post notification level months ago. But I only got my first notification from Discourse today. I’ve missed many notifications I should have received. Weird. I watched (set to tracking) marketplace for a few months and didn’…

I assumed this issue would be uncommon and difficult to reproduce. I just wanted to make some record and offer a solution. I’m not sure if there are similar support requests or bug 's. Also, I want to point out that I am specifically using “Watching First Post”. Perhaps Tracking works and Watching…

As a temporary workaround, I see that release-notes topics rarely have more than 1-2 posts, so maybe the regular watch or tracking option would work for you on that for now.

Looking at your preferences @zjpcyo , it seems you don’t have any categories set to Watching First Post? @moin has correctly pointed out that release-notes is a tag and not a category, and I can see that is in your Tag Notifications as Watching First Post. :+1: I’m still not sure why you wouldn’t r…

That is because release-notes is a tag and not a category

[image] Jim Kleiber: maybe the regular watch or tracking option would work for you I’d like to be notified by e-mail. So I believe that excludes Tracking. I just want the announcements not the comments. That is why I chose Watching First Post instead of Watching. As a sidenote, the ?order=…

I receive emails for releases but I’m set to ‘watching’ rather than ‘watch first’. The only responses to release-notes topics are additional notes, so you won’t be bombarded with reply notification emails.

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