# Setting a category's notifications to "tracking" not working as expected? **URL:** \ **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")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 9
**Author:** ![mbauman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mbauman/32/139835_2.png) [@mbauman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mbauman)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2022, 4:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-a-categorys-notifications-to-tracking-not-working-as-expected/219313/9 "2022-03-31T16:08:28Z")
I mean, it’s not hard to reproduce my initial report here on meta itself. Here I have the #Support category set as tracking — and have had it set like this since my initial report when I reproduced what was happening on our hosted instance. ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/f/3/f3605bb803ecee1edd5c8e70bf0220966e9dc313.png) No new topics are actually tracked until I open them. For example, the most recent post right now is: ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/4/e/4ef67731d7eeaac306c292bf23e9b92a84d28332.png) When I open it, I can see it’s set to normal: ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/d/b/db8b495a743ed73ead6f7061a61a076a3ca0592e.png) But upon refreshing the page I see it’s actually tracked (I refreshed immediately so as to not trigger the time-based watching): ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/f/0/f0c4dd8afaa9c34b403cd825511553002509e03f.png) This seems pretty clear-cut, no? **Topics only tracked if I open them (or have opened them)**. This isn’t how watching a category works. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-a-categorys-notifications-to-tracking-not-working-as-expected/219313)._