# Urgent: help troubleshoot missing notifications for watched categories **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/urgent-help-troubleshoot-missing-notifications-for-watched-categories/32339 **Category:** Support **Created:** [August 20, 2015, 4:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/urgent-help-troubleshoot-missing-notifications-for-watched-categories/32339 "2015-08-20T16:26:00Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 18
### Author: ![wesochuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/wesochuck/32/108706_2.png) [@wesochuck](https://meta.discourse.org/u/wesochuck) #### Post date: [August 26, 2015, 2:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/urgent-help-troubleshoot-missing-notifications-for-watched-categories/32339/18 "2015-08-26T02:49:36Z")
Ok, I believe I’ve figured out what was going on in my Discourse instance, here are the repo steps: 1. Create a group; add some users to that group 2. Create a category 3. Remove the everyone permission from the new category 4. Add your new group created in step #1 so those members can Create / Reply / See 5. Make a post in this new category 6. Add new members to the permission group created in step #1 7. Make sure that these members are set to Watch the category 8. Post a reply to the topic created in step #3 The users that you added in step #4 will **not** get notified of this new post/reply to any **topic that was created before they joined the group.** They **will** get notified anytime a **new topic** is made in the category. Personally I would consider this is a bug as it is not feasible for me to go back and invite these individuals to all previous topics in this category that they might want to get notified of a reply on (they can view the topic in the web interface), but I suppose it is possible that the system could have been spec’d out to work this way for a reason. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/urgent-help-troubleshoot-missing-notifications-for-watched-categories/32339)._