# Automatically bumping old topics on a category

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-bumping-old-topics-on-a-category/92518
**Category:** Announcements
**Tags:** new-feature, auto-bump
**Created:** [July 17, 2018, 5:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-bumping-old-topics-on-a-category/92518 "2018-07-17T05:25:53Z")
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#### Post date: [July 17, 2018, 5:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-bumping-old-topics-on-a-category/92518/1 "2018-07-17T05:25:53Z")

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On certain categories it makes sense to bump old topics automatically on a regular basis.

- On buying/selling categories in can make sense to regularly bump visibility while a topic is open and item is still on sale.

- In #Support categories it may make sense to bump old topics in case they were forgotten

Till now the only way to raise visibility was to “edit” the last post of a topic or post a `bump` reply.

Both of these solutions are not ideal.

We just added a new category setting called: `Number of open topics to automatically bump daily`. By default it is set to 0 and no automatic bumping happens. However, you can turn the number up (on meta with set it to 3 on #Support).

What does it do?

IF there exists an **non-closed** , **non-solved** , **visible** , **non-archived** , **non category description** and **non-pinned** topic that was bumped less than 24 hours ago.

We will look for N oldest bumped topic and bump it to the front page. The process will bump a maximum of 1 topic every 15 minutes and it is rate limited so we only do N per day. (you set N)

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