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=created parameter solves the problem of recent comments knocking the topics out of order.
So if I want to peek at a topic list without subscribing, I can use that parameter in the address bar to sort topics by created date.
Ex.
https://meta.discourse.org/?order=created
As a practical matter, release-notes don’t appear to have that issue. But this can be useful in other cases.
Ex. Manjaro releases category:
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