Suggestion to change topic-subscription descriptions

I don’t know. Maybe it has more to do with how much and what meaning one imparts to certain words.

To me, “tracking” is a bit more removed than “watching”.

That is, if I am tracking (my mind goes to “as in hunting, stalking”) something I may be following it at a distance.
I’m interested, and I do hope to catch up to it, but I may not be “on top of it”

If I’m watching something, it means I’m right there up close enough to see it at the moment.

In any case, I’m not so sure it is the “words” that need to be changed, and in fact I think changing them now would be a very bad thing.

On the other hand, if the descriptions of what each setting means could be made more understandable for those unfamiliar with them I think that wuld be a good thing.

My problem is, I know what they mean and I know what they do. So the settings and their descriptions and effects make perfect sense to me as they are now. But I have lost the ability to see them with the fresh eyes of a Discourse newbie.

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