# Not receiving notifications for announcements

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-receiving-notifications-for-announcements/87275
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [May 11, 2018, 3:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-receiving-notifications-for-announcements/87275 "2018-05-11T15:52:00Z")
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### Author: ![david](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/david/32/157490_2.png) [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2018, 4:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-receiving-notifications-for-announcements/87275/2 "2018-05-11T16:15:15Z")

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I would guess that the post is being drafted either as a PM or a ‘shared draft’, and therefore notifications are not being sent. See here:

> [@Does reassigning a category send a new email out to the group watching the new category?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-reassigning-a-category-send-a-new-email-out-to-the-group-watching-the-new-category/39249/8):
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> On my dev instance I just tried these steps: User1 sets “Announcements” category to “Watching” User2 performs these actions: Private message (publish timer) Create a private message with self, set timer to publish to “Announcements” Staff only topic (publish timer) Create a topic in a staff only category, set timer to publish to “Announcements” Private message (manual publish) Create a private message with self, click Make Public Topic [(screenshot here)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chatroom-integration-plugin-discourse-chat-integration/66522/29) This creates a public “Uncategor…

and more recently here:

> [@Notifications when a topic is recategorized](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notifications-when-a-topic-is-recategorized/63079/14):
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> I think this is the same issue discussed here: I wonder if this also applies to publishing topics created using the shared drafts feature…

It looks like @tgxworld applied a related fix here

> [@Notifications when a topic is recategorized](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notifications-when-a-topic-is-recategorized/63079/15):
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> @simon I fixed it in [https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/ee1eb1a5bd834ed49e7efe2ee58bb567556a8c7c](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/ee1eb1a5bd834ed49e7efe2ee58bb567556a8c7c)

I just tried a few things locally:

- Watching #announcements
  - “Make PM Public”, then recategorise to #announcements
  - No notification received ❌

- Watching #annoucements
  - “Publish shared draft”
  - Notification received ✅

- Watching first post #announcements
  - “Publish shared draft”
  - Notification not received ❌

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