Unread topics in query-link-lists tracking/watching

I think the problem is:

Topics in Categories set to tracking only become tracked themselves when they’re clicked on.

To demonstrate, here’s my current New tab:

You can see the “Discourse Narrative Bot Beta Feedback” topic is listed, in the feature Category, which I track.

Then if I go to latest, with ?state=tracking we can’t see that topic:

And to really drive the point home, if I go back to new, with ?state=tracking I see nothing:

I think the request is for topics in Tracked categories to work like topics in Watched categories - they become Tracked as soon as the category-level notification setting is changed, so they appear in Unread as soon as posted.

I would also like to see this change, but haven’t until now (and even then I’m not sure) found the right words to clearly explain what I think is intuitive.

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