# 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:** ![tgxworld](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tgxworld/32/106117_2.png) [@tgxworld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tgxworld)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2018, 8:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-receiving-notifications-for-announcements/87275/7 "2018-05-17T08:17:32Z")

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> [@david](#):
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> Watching #announcements
> 
> - “Make PM Public”, then recategorise to #announcements
> - No notification received ❌

@david Was this not working for you even with [FIX: Retrigger notification when a topic is recategorized. · discourse/discourse@ee1eb1a · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/ee1eb1a5bd834ed49e7efe2ee58bb567556a8c7c) applied?

> [@david](#):
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> - Watching first post #announcements
> - “Publish shared draft”
> - Notification not received ❌

This case is fixed in

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/147ea37115d043caf6b547933b97eabf34e9f27e](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/147ea37115d043caf6b547933b97eabf34e9f27e)

> [@sam](#):
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> It is a bit tricky here cause, what happens when you move something to #feature:announcements and then move it out of #feature:announcements ? We need to remove the watching status from all the people to be “correct”

I tested this locally and it looks we we already do this.

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