# Ability to Select Multiple Unread Topics and Mark as Read
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-select-multiple-unread-topics-and-mark-as-read/89308
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** completed
**Created:** [June 6, 2018, 10:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-select-multiple-unread-topics-and-mark-as-read/89308 "2018-06-06T22:47:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@dramamama](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dramamama)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2018, 10:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-select-multiple-unread-topics-and-mark-as-read/89308/1 "2018-06-06T22:47:02Z")
Much like emails, it would be useful to be able to select multiple topics and mark them as “Read” to get rid of old notifications.
Changing the options for notifications in certain categories (after the fact) does not affect the count for these topic (which is understandable). That being said, selecting each topic and scrolling down to the bottom for EACH individual thread is a real drudgery when you have hundreds looking you in the face.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2018, 1:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-select-multiple-unread-topics-and-mark-as-read/89308/2 "2018-06-07T01:16:26Z")
Use the dismiss button on the unread tab for this. It is at the bottom for small lists of unread topics, and at the top and bottom for large lists of unread topics.
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### Author:  [@\_diondiondion](https://meta.discourse.org/u/_diondiondion)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2020, 7:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-select-multiple-unread-topics-and-mark-as-read/89308/3 "2020-11-20T19:21:26Z")
> [@codinghorror](#):
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> Use the dismiss button on the unread tab for this.
Any chance you’d consider providing a “Mark as read” button on the “Latest” page? We’re getting user requests for such a functionality in our forum, and I can see how it can be useful if you don’t outright want to ignore topics (which permanently removes them from most views), but just not read them this time.
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### Author:  [@rahim123](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rahim123)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2023, 4:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-select-multiple-unread-topics-and-mark-as-read/89308/4 "2023-01-12T04:37:43Z")
> [@\_diondiondion](#):
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> Any chance you’d consider providing a “Mark as read” button on the “Latest” page? We’re getting user requests for such a functionality in our forum
Also getting user requests for this, the **Mark All as Read** button that acted on the _Recent Posts_ list of the original forum was extremely popular.
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### Author:  [@thoka](https://meta.discourse.org/u/thoka)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2024, 8:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-select-multiple-unread-topics-and-mark-as-read/89308/5 "2024-03-05T20:43:59Z")
This feature seems to have been implemented on May 26, 2021:
> [@Selective dismissal of New and Unread topics](https://meta.discourse.org/t/selective-dismissal-of-new-and-unread-topics/191641):
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> Today I have merged these changes [https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/12976](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/12976) which will allow all users to selectively dismiss New and Unread topics using the bulk topic selection functionality. Previously, bulk topic selection was limited to only staff users. Now, on the /new and /unread topic filters, all users can bulk select topics using the checkboxes. Any selected topics will now be passed as context to the Dismiss Unread modal, and the Dismiss New button, so you don’t have to dis…
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2024, 10:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-select-multiple-unread-topics-and-mark-as-read/89308/6 "2024-03-05T22:15:26Z")