# Users notified of unlisted topic creation

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/users-notified-of-unlisted-topic-creation/271895
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** unlisting
**Created:** [July 17, 2023, 8:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/users-notified-of-unlisted-topic-creation/271895 "2023-07-17T20:30:25Z")
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### Author: ![ondrej](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ondrej/32/198804_2.png) [@ondrej](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ondrej)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2023, 8:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/users-notified-of-unlisted-topic-creation/271895/1 "2023-07-17T20:30:25Z")

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Not sure if this is by design but it seems illogical to me.

If a user is watching a certain tag or category they are notified when staff create an unlisted topic in that category.`*` This defeats the point of having an ‘unlisted’ topic. I understand that one can access unlisted topics with a link but a notification to the topic should not be sent to users.

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