Our self hosted discourse is quite old (started Jan 2014) and when I click on “new users” /admin/users/list/new all 996 users show up (even staff) What settings might I have altered over the years which would cause discourse to think everyone is new?

Hi Allen, This is expected behaviour. The New Users page lists all users, including staff, sorted by registration date (newest first). It doesn’t filter by how recently they registered. So this doesn’t appear to be a settings issue.

Könnte man dann in Betracht ziehen es in “Alle” oder “Alle Nutzer” umzubennen. Das Label Neue Benutzer ist ja dann etwas missverständlich.

Yeah, I was really confused, spent a lot of time reviewing trust levels, etc. The “Active” tab also has every activated user, so having a “New” tab made sense. All this in the context of: I’m trying to battle the wave of newly created users (see New users that have never been Seen or Activated )

After 13.5 years of using Discourse, I never realized this. The same list can be obtained by sorting the Active users list on the Created column (/admin/users/list/active?order=created) so I suggest we get rid of that New tab? It is confusing and redundant, and I expect tabs to filter, not to sort. Edit if it is removed then there should be a proper way to sort that list on mobile. There currently is not.

Perhaps these labels should be “By Age” and “By Activity”

In my head, “age” means the actual age of the person.

mm. I suppose the UX confusion arises because these two tabs are sort orders - the ones to the right are filters. Except the end one which is a different list. And the first, which is Settings.

[image] Ed_S: because these two tabs are sort orders - the ones to the right are filters Exactly, that is very counterintuitive [image] RGJ: and I expect tabs to filter, not to sort.

Mm. And I see there is already ability to sort on columns, and to show an ordering. So, if Active is actually sorted by Seen, and New is sorted by Created, we only need All, and to show the ordering in all cases. And pick a default, either sorted by Seen or by Created. (Another preference!) [image] (Apologies if this is precisely something previously suggested - I haven’t read back over the thread)

[image] asa: Could we then consider renaming it to “All” or “All users”? The label “New users” would be somewhat misleading in that case. You could edit the Site Tests to achieve that. However imho it makes sense as it lists users from newest to oldest. Renaming it may also create some confusion as well. If not mistaken active users also lists all users but prioritizes list by rec3bt activity

Why might all our users show as "new"?

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Could we then consider renaming it to “All” or “All users”? The label “New users” would be somewhat misleading in that case.

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Why might all our users show as "new"?

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