# Posting new topic as unlisted still triggers email notifications

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/posting-new-topic-as-unlisted-still-triggers-email-notifications/386921
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** unlisting
**Created:** [28 oktober 2025 om 11:42 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/posting-new-topic-as-unlisted-still-triggers-email-notifications/386921 "2025-10-28T11:42:27Z")
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### Author: ![Moin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/moin/32/554653_2.png) [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [28 oktober 2025 om 12:12 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/posting-new-topic-as-unlisted-still-triggers-email-notifications/386921/2 "2025-10-28T12:12:22Z")

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Unlisting is not meant to block notifications

> [@Users notified of unlisted topic creation](https://meta.discourse.org/t/users-notified-of-unlisted-topic-creation/271895/14):
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> I’m afraid this isn’t a bug, and is working as intended. Creating an Unlisted topic removes the topic from topic and search lists, but will still send a notification to anyone Watching/Watching First Post for the category (or tag). I believe the advice for creating a topic you don’t want people to see in advance is to use a permission-controlled category (eg staff) and to manually recategorise it when ready, or Schedule Publishing from the topic timer. You can also use the Shared Draft feature …

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