# Published/Scheduled Posts 'Watching First Post' notifications not being triggered
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/published-scheduled-posts-watching-first-post-notifications-not-being-triggered/273849
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** notifications
**Created:** [August 3, 2023, 3:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/published-scheduled-posts-watching-first-post-notifications-not-being-triggered/273849 "2023-08-03T15:58:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@Nacho\_Caballero](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Nacho_Caballero)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2023, 3:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/published-scheduled-posts-watching-first-post-notifications-not-being-triggered/273849/1 "2023-08-03T15:58:11Z")
I updated to [beta8](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commits/fbabea5c7680ec6d76f6357b893bd3e0eabdfb15) on August 1 and that’s when notifications of type 17 (watching\_first\_post) stopped being triggered.
The latest watching\_first\_post notification I have on my site has timestamp 2023-07-31T08:00+02:00. Private message notifications (6) or new posts (9) don’t seem to be affected.
You can verify it with this SQL query:
```plaintext
select n.*
from notifications n
where n.notification_type = 17
order by created_at desc
limit 10
```
I’ve also gotten reports from users that they’ve stopped receiving notifications of watched categories in the past 3 days:
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2023, 4:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/published-scheduled-posts-watching-first-post-notifications-not-being-triggered/273849/2 "2023-08-03T16:10:37Z")
Just as a reference point, but I still get them here on Meta:
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### Author:  [@Nacho\_Caballero](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Nacho_Caballero)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2023, 4:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/published-scheduled-posts-watching-first-post-notifications-not-being-triggered/273849/3 "2023-08-03T16:27:48Z")
It might just me then. Any ideas on what I could try? I checked /logs but didn’t see anything. 🤔
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### Author:  [@Lilly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lilly)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2023, 4:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/published-scheduled-posts-watching-first-post-notifications-not-being-triggered/273849/4 "2023-08-03T16:38:05Z")
i can’t reproduce this. maybe try [safe mode](https://meta.discourse.org/t/53504?silent=true)? 🤔
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### Author:  [@Nacho\_Caballero](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Nacho_Caballero)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2023, 4:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/published-scheduled-posts-watching-first-post-notifications-not-being-triggered/273849/5 "2023-08-03T16:55:06Z")
@JammyDodger @Lilly
Ok, I did a few more tests and realized this only happens when the topic is published (ie: re-categorized) using a timer.
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2023, 5:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/published-scheduled-posts-watching-first-post-notifications-not-being-triggered/273849/6 "2023-08-03T17:00:26Z")
There was a similar mishap on here recently with something like that… [No longer get notification for new post on meta?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-longer-get-notification-for-new-post-on-meta/273235)
Have you got `disable category edit notifications` or `disable tag edit notifications` enabled in your settings?
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### Author:  [@Nacho\_Caballero](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Nacho_Caballero)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2023, 5:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/published-scheduled-posts-watching-first-post-notifications-not-being-triggered/273849/7 "2023-08-03T17:05:29Z")
> [@JammyDodger](#):
>
> Have you got `disable category edit notifications` or `disable tag edit notifications` enabled in your settings?
Yes, that’s it. Is there no way to get both features: no notifications on manual category changes and notifications on scheduled category changes?
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2023, 7:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/published-scheduled-posts-watching-first-post-notifications-not-being-triggered/273849/8 "2023-08-04T07:35:38Z")
I’m glad we got to the bottom of it at least. 🙂
I’m afraid there isn’t a way to separate the two at the moment, though (as demonstrated by the linked topic above 🙂) I think I would find it useful. My main use for disabling the category and/or tag edit notifications is when I do some tidying up of older topics, so I think my :chefs_kiss: option would be for me to enter some kind of ninja mode when I’m moving those around so others can still use the forum as intended. Though I am not entirely sure on the practicalities of that. 🙂
I think it would make a good #Contribute > Feature request though. 👍
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### Author:  [@Nacho\_Caballero](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Nacho_Caballero)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2023, 7:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/published-scheduled-posts-watching-first-post-notifications-not-being-triggered/273849/9 "2023-08-04T07:59:43Z")
[Done](https://meta.discourse.org/t/trigger-notifications-on-scheduled-category-change-but-not-on-manual-ones/273931/1). Thanks 👍
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2023, 10:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/published-scheduled-posts-watching-first-post-notifications-not-being-triggered/273849/10 "2023-09-11T10:57:08Z")
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