# Can I, as a user, easily find topics started on a particular date?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-as-a-user-easily-find-topics-started-on-a-particular-date/60629
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [8 april 2017 om 06:13 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-as-a-user-easily-find-topics-started-on-a-particular-date/60629 "2017-04-08T06:13:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@elijah](https://meta.discourse.org/u/elijah)
#### Post date: [8 april 2017 om 06:13 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-as-a-user-easily-find-topics-started-on-a-particular-date/60629/1 "2017-04-08T06:13:58Z")
Scenario: People start very particular types of topics on certain dates, such as April First, and I, a user who was away from the world on that date, might want to go back and find them easily. And while scrolling sort-of works, it works less well if I want to compare to the previous year’s topics.
I suspect the answer is “No”, only someone with database access can _easily_ do that, but I wanted to check.
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### Author:  [@scombs](https://meta.discourse.org/u/scombs)
#### Post date: [8 april 2017 om 06:48 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-as-a-user-easily-find-topics-started-on-a-particular-date/60629/2 "2017-04-08T06:48:19Z")
You can use search parameters. Just type in seach bar.
- after:2017-03-31 before:2017-04-02
You can also add other options under advanced search. You might hit the 50 results cap.
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### Author:  [@elijah](https://meta.discourse.org/u/elijah)
#### Post date: [8 april 2017 om 16:50 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-as-a-user-easily-find-topics-started-on-a-particular-date/60629/3 "2017-04-08T16:50:52Z")
> [@scombs](#):
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> after:2017-03-31 before:2017-04-02
Close, but not exactly what I was asking for: that finds posts, not topics, but given that the first post of a topic is included, it does show up, albeit harder to find:
> [@scombs](#):
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> You might hit the 50 results cap.
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [8 april 2017 om 16:57 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-as-a-user-easily-find-topics-started-on-a-particular-date/60629/4 "2017-04-08T16:57:41Z")
Add `in:first` to the search. That should limit it to the first post of each topic.
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### Author:  [@elijah](https://meta.discourse.org/u/elijah)
#### Post date: [8 april 2017 om 18:56 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-as-a-user-easily-find-topics-started-on-a-particular-date/60629/5 "2017-04-08T18:56:25Z")
ding-ding-ding-ding!
Thanks, that seems to be the winner.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2 augustus 2017 om 23:57 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-as-a-user-easily-find-topics-started-on-a-particular-date/60629/6 "2017-08-02T23:57:48Z")
> [@scombs](#):
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> 50 results cap.
You can scroll down and search results are no longer limited to 50 results.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [20 juli 2019 om 18:35 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-as-a-user-easily-find-topics-started-on-a-particular-date/60629/7 "2019-07-20T18:35:06Z")
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [25 augustus 2020 om 06:08 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-as-a-user-easily-find-topics-started-on-a-particular-date/60629/8 "2020-08-25T06:08:53Z")
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