# Muted categories should not hide Tracked/Watched topics **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature\ **Created:** [13. Oktober 2015 um 06:04 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/muted-categories-should-not-hide-tracked-watched-topics/34441 "2015-10-13T06:04:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![tpitts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ce7236/32.png) [@tpitts](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tpitts)\ **Post date:** [13. Oktober 2015 um 06:04 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/muted-categories-should-not-hide-tracked-watched-topics/34441/1 "2015-10-13T06:04:22Z")
We use Discourse at my work place as a more public/searchable means of communication than email. It’s been working well so far but since we are about 1300 people I find I need to Mute categories that I don’t have much interest in just to keep my Latest tab manageable. This leads to some problems though… Let’s say that someone mentions me in a topic within a Muted category, or that I create a topic in that category. These are now topics that I care about but because they are within a Muted category they don’t show up on my Latest tab. I realize that I will see the topic show up in the Unread tab and that I can find the topic through other means (like going to the category’s page) but I’d like the Latest tab to show me the topics that I care about. I propose that Muting a category would only hide Normal topics from the Latest tab. Tracked/Watched topics would always show up regardless of the category’s state. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/muted-categories-should-not-hide-tracked-watched-topics/34441)._