# Dismiss Topics/Replies per Category
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/dismiss-topics-replies-per-category/28602
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [5월 10, 2015, 10:32오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dismiss-topics-replies-per-category/28602 "2015-05-10T22:32:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@purldator](https://meta.discourse.org/u/purldator)
#### Post date: [5월 10, 2015, 10:32오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dismiss-topics-replies-per-category/28602/1 "2015-05-10T22:32:53Z")
Sometimes I wish for a more focused view per category, in terms of the New/Unread tabs.
@cpradio [already made a PR that was merged in October of last year.](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dismiss-buttons-missing-on-category-new-unread/19985/9)
I am unsure if that was suppose to fix what I am looking for/missing. Because as of right now there’s no dismiss buttons at least for the new tab per category.
I also am wondering if it’s possible for the category drop down to remember that I was looking at the new/unread tabs. Instead of jumping to the latest for that category it would keep inside the new/unread tabs.
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [5월 10, 2015, 10:40오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dismiss-topics-replies-per-category/28602/2 "2015-05-10T22:40:56Z")
> [@purldator](#):
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> at least for the new tab per category.
Unfortunately, that is very much intentional, as for New, there is a single column on the User that gets reset, it isn’t by category. So if you put the button on that page, it will be misleading.
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### Author:  [@purldator](https://meta.discourse.org/u/purldator)
#### Post date: [5월 10, 2015, 10:41오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dismiss-topics-replies-per-category/28602/3 "2015-05-10T22:41:53Z")
Ahh I see. So it’s because of the database schema?
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### Author:  [@DeanMarkTaylor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeanMarkTaylor)
#### Post date: [5월 10, 2015, 10:58오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dismiss-topics-replies-per-category/28602/4 "2015-05-10T22:58:00Z")
Here another original topic also covering this:
> [@Can't Dismiss Unread in category view](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-dismiss-unread-in-category-view/14557):
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> There is no Dismiss Unread button here. Why not?
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### Author:  [@DeanMarkTaylor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeanMarkTaylor)
#### Post date: [5월 10, 2015, 11:02오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dismiss-topics-replies-per-category/28602/5 "2015-05-10T23:02:07Z")
I am seeing both Dismiss Posts and Dismiss Topics here on meta, here is an example for the “support” category:
But yes…
When changing the category from the Top Level - Unread from “all categories” to “support”…
It de-selects the “Unread” and lists “Latest”.
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### Author:  [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [5월 10, 2015, 11:05오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dismiss-topics-replies-per-category/28602/6 "2015-05-10T23:05:35Z")
I think you can do it in a category for Unread but not for New.
Guessing its because topics are considered new if they were created after a single timestamp.
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### Author:  [@purldator](https://meta.discourse.org/u/purldator)
#### Post date: [5월 10, 2015, 11:07오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dismiss-topics-replies-per-category/28602/7 "2015-05-10T23:07:35Z")
Yes, that’s for unread. I am guessing that is what @cpradio was alluding to. Here’s my New tab for the support category:
No dismiss buttons.
> [@DeanMarkTaylor](#):
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> But yes…When changing the category from the Top Level - Unread from “all categories” to “support”…It de-selects the “Unread” and lists “Latest”.
Thank you for confirming! I only wish for it to continue selecting either new or unread, if I was viewing one of them and then decide to narrow it down to a specific category.
> [@mcwumbly](#):
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> I think you can do it in a category for Unread but not for New.
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> Guessing its because topics are considered new if they were created after a single timestamp.
Then it can’t be helped. Right now I have zero items listed in the unread tab for specific categories. I only wish to dismiss what’s in ‘new’ for a specific category.
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [5월 11, 2015, 12:55오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dismiss-topics-replies-per-category/28602/8 "2015-05-11T00:55:14Z")
> [@purldator](#):
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> I only wish to dismiss what’s in ‘new’ for a specific category.
That is currently impossible without significant schema changes and I’m not sure it is a good idea, as that schema has to change as new categories are added or old ones deleted, etc.
And yes, my PR added support for the Unread tab on categories, so you could dismiss the posts/topics accordingly. During that process, I was going to approach the Dismiss New at a category level, but realized the work involved was well beyond my Ruby/Ember/Rails/Discourse abilities at the time (and still is).
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### Author:  [@purldator](https://meta.discourse.org/u/purldator)
#### Post date: [5월 11, 2015, 1:16오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dismiss-topics-replies-per-category/28602/9 "2015-05-11T01:16:37Z")
The schema, I figured. The moment you mentioned it above.
Any workarounds?
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [7월 13, 2016, 10:08오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dismiss-topics-replies-per-category/28602/10 "2016-07-13T10:08:35Z")
Continued here:
> [@Dismiss (new topics) button missing on categories (when new filter selected)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dismiss-new-topics-button-missing/43939):
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> Using Discourse at these two sites: Until a recent upgrade, there used to be a small, rectangular mid-grey button at bottom right of the page displaying New topics (from the ‘New’ tab at top) with the label ‘Dismiss’ or ‘Dismiss All’. It seems to have gone in this version. It was particularly useful when not every thread was relevant or needed to be attended to. Now it’s necessary to click into each thread - actually twice - for them each no longer to show up in one’s ‘New’ list. Good lu…