# Meta should use worldwide defaults **URL:** \ **Category:** Site feedback\ **Created:** [April 2, 2024, 11:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/meta-should-use-worldwide-defaults/302138 "2024-04-02T23:31:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![jidanni](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jidanni/32/291938_2.png) [@jidanni](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jidanni)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2024, 11:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/meta-should-use-worldwide-defaults/302138/1 "2024-04-02T23:31:19Z")
Just the other day, actually today, I was reading > [@Rename "Defer" to “Mark Unread”](https://meta.discourse.org/t/defer-not-clear/262945/26): > > Hey folks wave We’ve updated the label to Enable mark topics as unread to clarify this setting’s behavior. We’ll talk more internally about possibly enabling this setting by default, to give members more tools around managing their reading. I’ll follow up here once we have a decision on how to proceed. When the thought occurred to me that later that [meta.discourse.org](http://meta.discourse.org) should use the 100% vanilla version of Discourse that is distributed worldwide, with no tweaks. Reasons: If Discourse is so wonderful, then you shouldn’t need to change it, or if you do change it, change it for everybody worldwide. One can say “See what happened,” without needing to go to a different vanilla test machine to show what happened… --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/meta-should-use-worldwide-defaults/302138)._