Untracked posts randomly becoming tracked again

Out of nowhere, around 80 announcement posts that I untracked have suddenly become tracked again overnight. This happened with a couple posts yesterday but I didn’t think of much of it, and then I woke up to this:

This is irritating as I untrack these threads to keep unreads limited to important things. I don’t know of any particular behavior that caused this bug.

Rough repro steps:

  • Start tracking a thread
  • Stop tracking the thread
  • Wait an eternity
  • Thread will become tracked again and reappear in unreads

I have no idea if this is a devforum specific bug or a discourse bug - I searched around but couldn’t find any other reports of this online, so I’m leaning towards devforum-specific. Let me know if there’s any more info I can provide.

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You clearly either don’t understand the purpose of this bug report or what it means to track a topic.

Tracking is a count of replies, the little blue number next to the topic. Having a topic be bumped is not the same as tracking.

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Hmm. I’m having something similar. I’m getting notified in mass about posts closing, which really makes no sense. I’m not following @system. On top of this, I’m not receiving notifications correctly. (Instead of getting notified correctly for the new post I get notified about random posts…)

Edit:

All the notifications:

Posts that I should be notified for:

(Post of the false notified posts are by @Automationeer strangely).

This was because I just moved all my old FF posts to the new categories :tongue:

They’re showing up as ‘New Topic’ when it shouldn’t (it’s not a new topic and it was previously visible to you); it should just say ✏️ Automationeer. Could be showing up because you follow/track the old category, the new category, or the OP.

Hmm, I don’t think that’s the problem. I see they were moved, but I’m not getting notified for the new posts. (I track all subcategories of #forum-feedback).

Additionally, they all show up as locked to me:

I get that I’m being notified as they are moved, but I’m not getting notified for other new posts.