# "Tracked" (on the left sidebar) is confusing and quite useless atm

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**Category:** UX\
**Tags:** sidebar\
**Created:** [November 12, 2022, 3:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tracked-on-the-left-sidebar-is-confusing-and-quite-useless-atm/245374 "2022-11-12T15:23:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![xan2622](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/xan2622/32/156912_2.png) [@xan2622](https://meta.discourse.org/u/xan2622)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2022, 3:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tracked-on-the-left-sidebar-is-confusing-and-quite-useless-atm/245374/1 "2022-11-12T15:23:44Z")

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> [Try out the new sidebar and notification menus! - #157 by emilio](https://meta.discourse.org/t/try-out-the-new-sidebar-and-notification-menus/238821/157)

> [@Try out the new sidebar and notification menus!](https://meta.discourse.org/t/try-out-the-new-sidebar-and-notification-menus/238821/157):
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> Couple of things I noticed that were confusing to me
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> Tracked. I expected this to be all things I am tracking not just unread. ( starting to make me wonder about the use cases for Watching vs Tracking vs Bookmarking. )
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> The top nav options `latest`, `Top`, … etc feel like they would be sorts/filters for the thing i selected in sidebar but they are not necessarily. Like I selected **Top** here, **Tracked** is still focused by being bold. but I am not tracking most of these topics and it is really just the forum wide “top”

I second @emilio’s feeling/opinion about “ **Tracked** ” (the one that is located on the left sidebar, in “Community”).

I have expected that **Tracked** would:

- show a small blue dot that would inform me that, among the threads that I track, one (or several of them) has been updated with a new comment. Atm, it doesn’t show anything, no “blue dot” notification.
- lead me to a [page](https://meta.discourse.org/latest?f=tracked) with “Unread”: new posts that I haven’t read yet, within the threads that I am tracking.
- lead me to the same [page](https://meta.discourse.org/latest?f=tracked) with “Latest”: a list of all my tracked threads, shown in chronological order (the most recently updated ones being placed at the top).

But instead, currently, **Tracked** :

- leads me to “[Latest](https://meta.discourse.org/latest?f=tracked)” : _You’re all caught up! Ready to start a new conversation?_ which link I don’t feel like using here because I prefer to go to the right forum category before clicking on the “New Topic” button.
- allows me to click on “[Top](https://meta.discourse.org/top?f=tracked)” which displays topics that I have never tracked.

atm, **Tracked** feels pretty useless.  
Are there plans to change the behaviour of “ **Tracked** ” ?

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