Not too far now…I’ve fixed the last actual bug that was around. I appreciate yours and others’ input here, but we will make the functionality as it stands Permanent, then any further UX changes (like e.g. adding a dropdown to the New tab or adding user preferences around this) can go in a Contribute > Feature request topic.
As I said earlier in the topic too, it shouldn’t be too hard to make a theme component for your community if needed, since the topicTrackingState service still has the individual counts, we won’t be removing this.