# 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:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [2015年十月13日 06:33 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/muted-categories-should-not-hide-tracked-watched-topics/34441/6 "2015-10-13T06:33:37Z")

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I actually explained here:

> [@Muted categories are too atomic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/muted-categories-are-too-atomic/16546/14):
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> I am on the fence on if we should add a bypass on latest list for topics that you have explicitly tracked or watched, it can be done but is both expensive and can be counter intuitive.

> <https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/main/lib/topic_query.rb#L204>

Open to changing this

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