Is there a way to get emailed any time there’s a new topic posted in the Announcements category, but not with all the others? I can always come to the site itself to see what else is going on, but I really don’t need to be emailed about everything.
If you go to the Announcements category, just to the right of the new topic button is a notification button. You can set that to ‘Watching First Post’ and you will be notified each time there is a new topic. It’s category specific so you can set it to be notified for Announcements and just not set notifications on the others 
Everything other than Announcements is on “Normal” (notify if someone replies to me or tags me). Half an hour ago, I got a notification for this topic:
I don’t think I’m getting notified about every new topic, but there are some that definitely are getting pushed through, and I’m confused as to which/why.
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