# Clean up old topics **URL:** \ **Category:** Product Support\ **Created:** [February 2, 2023, 5:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/clean-up-old-topics/253862 "2023-02-02T17:08:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![gjsman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/gjsman/32/213853_2.png) [@gjsman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gjsman)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2023, 5:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/clean-up-old-topics/253862/1 "2023-02-02T17:08:36Z")
Hello, Our Discourse site for high school users has been very successful. Too successful. We’ve had 2.3 million posts and 2.9 million likes in the last 2 years since we began in January 2021. We would like to clean up the place a bit, to save on costs and to also reduce long-term risks from hacking or similar. Starting fresh would be painful, but the discovery of adding `/print` to the end of a topic URL to make 1000-comment pages for a PDF helps. We can’t find (and I really doubt) the existence of any clean way to remove, say, the oldest year’s worth of topics. Any thoughts? Do we need to start fresh, or are there any other options? Gabriel Sieben --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/clean-up-old-topics/253862)._