# Exclude category from New list
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/exclude-category-from-new-list/116817
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 4, 2019, 8:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/exclude-category-from-new-list/116817 "2019-05-04T08:20:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@alexs](https://meta.discourse.org/u/alexs)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2019, 8:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/exclude-category-from-new-list/116817/1 "2019-05-04T08:20:20Z")
One of our users has requested a way to see New topics (topics created within the last few days) but exclude topics from a certain category from that list. We’re using a specific category to collect requests & they’re not interested in seeing those requests.
It looks like they can mute the entire category to achieve this but that’s a bit of a blunt instrument because they are interested in seeing the discussion in those category’s topics.
Is it possible to enable them to retrieve a list of New topics, whether by creating a top menu option, adding a ‘not’ operator to search results or customising a URL perhaps, to exclude this topic?
It looks like they should be able to search for `in:first after:2019-05-01` if there’s a way to exclude specific categories from search results? I’ve seen that this can be done with [tags](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-search-operator-not/52087/32) but `-#support` for example doesn’t work. Although even if this is an option it’d still require them to update the date each day so it’s not ideal.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2022, 11:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/exclude-category-from-new-list/116817/2 "2022-08-27T11:22:45Z")
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### Author:  [@attj](https://meta.discourse.org/u/attj)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2022, 3:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/exclude-category-from-new-list/116817/3 "2022-08-27T15:04:24Z")
I need the same feature. Also, the mute solution seems to have a bug: [Possible Bug in Parent Category Mute](https://meta.discourse.org/t/possible-bug-in-parent-category-mute/237299)