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…

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supermathie (Michael Brown) Juillet 18, 2023, 1:46 8

Unlisted topics were never intended to be secure.

They’re intended to be “lightweight hidden”.

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Newly-created "unlisted" Topics send "new topic" Notifications

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