Old unread topic doesn’t show up as unread in tracked category

[Mittineague]

My rough imperfect translation is

• mute - I don’t care, don’t bother me
• normal - I’ll find them on my own thanks
• tracking - if it involves me let me know about it
• watching - I want to know about everything that happens

I have quite a few categories set to Watching and necro’d topics I have not previously visited in those categories come to my attention without a problem.

Any reasons Watching doesn’t work for you?

EDIT
(feels off-topic, but might be related)
Maybe not so much “without a problem”. It took me a bit of scrolling but I found a topic in the Feature category (that I Watch) that I had not visited, but was not a New and had the notifications level Nomal.

The option to enforce tagging

I’ve requested in the past that there be a setting to enforce the use of at least one pre-existing tag when creating a topic. I’m now aware of 3 separate use cases for this requirement (all current Discourse clients). More community structures are becoming reliant on tagging. Communities that rely on tags for surfacing content. Large communities that use complex tags and tag groups for their AI. I’ve forgotten the details of the third one but I’ll edit it in. These are creating a heavy mod l…

I’m guessing it was started in a category I’m not watching, was moved, and the edit history indicating the move was deleted?