# Muted topic is completely hidden

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/muted-topic-is-completely-hidden/72690>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [October 24, 2017, 2:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/muted-topic-is-completely-hidden/72690 "2017-10-24T14:00:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![volas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/volas/32/130651_2.png) [@volas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/volas)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2018, 2:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/muted-topic-is-completely-hidden/72690/7 "2018-12-30T14:36:54Z")

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I think **muted** should not **hide** category from category list, and affect only Latest/Unread/(maybe)Top and Notifications.

_Due to misunderstanding set important category with huge amount of new topics as muted by default for new users, and only today realized what I had done_

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