# Muted categories should not hide Tracked/Watched topics

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/muted-categories-should-not-hide-tracked-watched-topics/34441>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [2015年十月13日 06:04 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/muted-categories-should-not-hide-tracked-watched-topics/34441 "2015-10-13T06:04:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [2015年十月13日 06:20 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/muted-categories-should-not-hide-tracked-watched-topics/34441/2 "2015-10-13T06:20:04Z")

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Topics in a muted category, or individually muted topics, will still show in latest. They won’t ever generate notifications or unread counts, though.

What you propose would not work. Muting a category simply means, set all new topics in that category to a notification state of “muted” for you at the time of creation. There is no mechanism for somehow automagically deciding a topic in a category you explicitly muted, is no longer muted.

Sounds like it would be easier to just browse your site by category.

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