I have a certain tag muted under a category, because there are a lot of weekly threads genereated that are irrelevant to me. I still have few threads there I want to follow, though. However, even if I have those threads as watching/tracking, they don’t show up on my main/latest page.
I don’t think that’s how it’s supposed to work, as I believe this is a pretty common use-case? At least muted categories show up when you track/set them as watched, so this feels a bit inconsistent.
Other changes have been made after, so the code isn’t the same anymore, but it fixed the similar issue for categories.
I can repro the issue you describe:
Mute a tag
Track or watch a topic having this tag
The topic doesn’t appear in Latest. When a new message is created, it only appears in the New tab, but not on Latest.
Right: posting on the watched topic having a muted tag.
Left: the notification only appears on New, but the topic never appears in Latest.
I feel the behavior should be the same as with the categories: if I mute a category and then track or watch a topic from this category, it always appears on Latest.
It seems like a missing feature, but feels more like a bug because the behavior is inconsistent with how categories work in this regard, so I’ve moved your topic in bug.
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