# Disabling automatic topic unpinning?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabling-automatic-topic-unpinning/35507
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [November 12, 2015, 9:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabling-automatic-topic-unpinning/35507 "2015-11-12T21:15:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@dictoon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dictoon)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2015, 9:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabling-automatic-topic-unpinning/35507/1 "2015-11-12T21:15:37Z")
Like others, I was confused by this:
> [@Pinned topics get unpinned after I read them](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pinned-topics-get-unpinned-after-i-read-them/35283):
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> Recently I’ve been reading through a lot of pinned topics. I’ve noticed that all pinned topics get unpinned right after I have read through them. I’m not sure what causes this - but I sure know it’s annoying. I haven’t touched any of the forum shortcuts, so that would not be the case. Thanks for your input! Henrik
One use case of pinned topics are long-running devlogs / diaries. Having the topic unpin itself is rather inconvenient as it will eventually get lost.
Can automatic unpinning of topics be disabled, preferably on a per user basis?
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2015, 9:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabling-automatic-topic-unpinning/35507/2 "2015-11-12T21:19:01Z")
There is a site setting to disable it globally, I kind of wish we allowed you to pick per-pin
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### Author:  [@dictoon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dictoon)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2015, 9:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabling-automatic-topic-unpinning/35507/3 "2015-11-12T21:21:55Z")
Yes, I just found the related discussion:
[https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-welcome-pinned-topic-to-be-unpinned-for-regular-users/9795/](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-welcome-pinned-topic-to-be-unpinned-for-regular-users/9795/)
I suppose it’ll be part of the next release?
Thanks guys, awesome support as always.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2015, 9:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabling-automatic-topic-unpinning/35507/4 "2015-11-12T21:30:27Z")
The disable flag is in latest, per user or per pin option was discussed but is not planned
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2015, 9:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabling-automatic-topic-unpinning/35507/5 "2015-11-12T21:45:01Z")
> [@dictoon](#):
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> Having the topic unpin itself is rather inconvenient as it will eventually get lost.
I have unpinned quite a few topics after reading them.
The easiest way to find them again that I’ve found is to visit while not logged in.
A bit inconvenient and not the easiest thing to do or teach to others, but it works.
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2015, 5:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabling-automatic-topic-unpinning/35507/6 "2015-11-17T17:28:30Z")
We discussed this and based on the feedback we received, we added a new user preference 🍒
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/92ba6125c4a349b3ffefdfead3f1086d1ba77488](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/92ba6125c4a349b3ffefdfead3f1086d1ba77488)
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### Author:  [@Alankrit\_Choudh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Alankrit_Choudh)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2015, 5:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabling-automatic-topic-unpinning/35507/7 "2015-11-17T17:34:04Z")
Gonna upgrade my setup now thanks 😄
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### Author:  [@dictoon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dictoon)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2015, 5:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabling-automatic-topic-unpinning/35507/8 "2015-11-17T17:57:03Z")
Just updated, thanks!
Not sure to understand why there are two settings (Automatically unpin and Automatically unpin by default) since there are no per-topic unpin setting… Yet?
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2015, 6:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabling-automatic-topic-unpinning/35507/9 "2015-11-17T18:04:54Z")
> [@dictoon](#):
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> Not sure to understand why there are two settings (Automatically unpin and Automatically unpin by default) since there are no per-topic unpin setting… Yet?
The “`automatically_unpin_topics`” setting is used to **globally** enable/disable the feature while the “`default_topics_automatic_unpin`” setting is used to set the **default** user preference.
You might want to have the feature enabled globally but defaulted to off for your new users.
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### Author:  [@dictoon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dictoon)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2015, 6:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabling-automatic-topic-unpinning/35507/10 "2015-11-17T18:09:43Z")
Ah, so this is a per-user setting? I can’t find it in my user preferences.
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2015, 6:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabling-automatic-topic-unpinning/35507/11 "2015-11-17T18:11:25Z")
Exactly, it’s now a per-user setting.
It’s near the bottom
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### Author:  [@dictoon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dictoon)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2015, 6:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabling-automatic-topic-unpinning/35507/12 "2015-11-17T18:12:51Z")
Not here…
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2015, 6:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabling-automatic-topic-unpinning/35507/13 "2015-11-17T18:14:40Z")
Are you running the latest version of Discourse? I added this new setting less than an hour ago 😉
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### Author:  [@dictoon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dictoon)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2015, 6:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabling-automatic-topic-unpinning/35507/14 "2015-11-17T18:16:12Z")
I just updated, and I do have the other (site) settings regarding automatic unpinning… Did you do multiple commits?
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2015, 6:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabling-automatic-topic-unpinning/35507/15 "2015-11-17T18:18:15Z")
The “`automatically_unpin_topic`” setting was added about a couple of days ago.
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### Author:  [@dictoon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dictoon)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2015, 6:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabling-automatic-topic-unpinning/35507/16 "2015-11-17T18:19:32Z")
Oh, right. Will get the per-user setting in the next update then. Thanks!
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### Author:  [@tophee](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tophee)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2017, 8:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabling-automatic-topic-unpinning/35507/17 "2017-05-16T08:47:46Z")
Do I understand things correctly that when a pinned topic only has a single post, the topic gets unpinned as soon as that post is displayed for the user? Or only after it has been displayed for a certain amount of time?
I think it would be good if the automatic unpinning would only be triggered if a topic has been viewed for a certain amount of time. Reason: if you pin a topic, the idea is to make sure that people read it. If it is only one post (perhaps because it is a closed announcement) and people only briefly look at it, you might want to keep it pinned for them until they take a closer look.
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2017, 12:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabling-automatic-topic-unpinning/35507/18 "2017-05-16T12:30:53Z")
Topic is only unpinned for a user once it reaches the end of that topic. If it’s a one-post topic, then I guess it’s the same as viewing that post.
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### Author:  [@tophee](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tophee)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2017, 12:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabling-automatic-topic-unpinning/35507/19 "2017-05-16T12:45:46Z")
Okay, fine. Then what do you think about adding a timer before it is unpinned? The timer will be irrelevant for longer topics but would be useful for one-post topics.
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### Author:  [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2025, 11:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabling-automatic-topic-unpinning/35507/20 "2025-12-04T11:37:07Z")