# How can I turn off new topic alert?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-turn-off-new-topic-alert/303570
**Category:** Development
**Tags:** css
**Created:** [April 12, 2024, 2:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-turn-off-new-topic-alert/303570 "2024-04-12T14:19:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@ogulcan1787](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ogulcan1787)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2024, 2:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-turn-off-new-topic-alert/303570/1 "2024-04-12T14:19:58Z")
Hi how can i do that ?
With CSS or in admin settings ?
```plaintext
#list-area .show-more .alert {
display: none;
}
```
Is that true ?
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### Author:  [@Lilly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lilly)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2024, 3:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-turn-off-new-topic-alert/303570/2 "2024-04-12T15:42:26Z")
I think this should work
```scss
#list-area .show-more {
display: none;
}
```
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### Author:  [@ogulcan1787](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ogulcan1787)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2024, 4:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-turn-off-new-topic-alert/303570/3 "2024-04-12T16:43:32Z")
I think they both work, but I preferred to use the codes you gave.
Thank you ❤
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### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2024, 4:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-turn-off-new-topic-alert/303570/4 "2024-04-12T16:47:43Z")
Why would you want to do this?
It’s a really nice way of pulling in updates without having to refresh the screen.
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### Author:  [@ogulcan1787](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ogulcan1787)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2024, 4:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-turn-off-new-topic-alert/303570/5 "2024-04-12T16:51:29Z")
It’s nice, yes, but my forum site is an mmorpg forum.
I do not want members to receive notifications of issues that do not interest them.
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### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2024, 5:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-turn-off-new-topic-alert/303570/6 "2024-04-12T17:01:51Z")
But what if the update is to a topic they are interested in?
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### Author:  [@ogulcan1787](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ogulcan1787)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2024, 5:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-turn-off-new-topic-alert/303570/7 "2024-04-12T17:06:32Z")
There is a Latest category, they can look from there.
In the future, I can activate this as if it were a new update of the site.
It would be a different innovation for the members and attract attention.
I think I wrote too long 🙂
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### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2024, 5:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-turn-off-new-topic-alert/303570/8 "2024-04-12T17:10:03Z")
> [@ogulcan1787](#):
>
> There is a Latest category, they can look from there.
This filter Topic List will not update unless you refresh the browser page or click the home logo.
And without this notification you won’t know if you need to or not. 🤷♂️
So you are just going to have more users refreshing your website pointlessly and using more resources than they would otherwise need to in the hope there is an update where there may be none.
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### Author:  [@Lilly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lilly)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2024, 5:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-turn-off-new-topic-alert/303570/9 "2024-04-12T17:12:33Z")
yea honestly the logic of hiding this doesn’t really make sense, unless you can provide the use case of why users should not be notified of new topics without having to reload to find out if they exist?
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### Author:  [@ogulcan1787](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ogulcan1787)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2024, 5:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-turn-off-new-topic-alert/303570/10 "2024-04-12T17:21:10Z")
I decided not to remove the feature because of your pressure. 😁
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### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2024, 5:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-turn-off-new-topic-alert/303570/11 "2024-04-12T17:27:35Z")
Don’t let us bully you, but I think it makes sense to consider the potential unwanted effects 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2024, 5:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-turn-off-new-topic-alert/303570/12 "2024-05-12T17:28:03Z")
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