# Setting a category's notifications to "tracking" not working as expected?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-a-categorys-notifications-to-tracking-not-working-as-expected/219313>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [February 24, 2022, 7:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-a-categorys-notifications-to-tracking-not-working-as-expected/219313 "2022-02-24T19:58:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![jerry0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jerry0/32/94523_2.png) [@jerry0](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jerry0)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2022, 4:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-a-categorys-notifications-to-tracking-not-working-as-expected/219313/11 "2022-04-01T16:45:44Z")

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> [@mbauman](#):
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> But upon refreshing the page I see it’s actually tracked (I refreshed immediately so as to not trigger the time-based watching):

This is somewhat similar behaviour to what I’ve seen - and I mentioned as the “second issue” above…

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