# "New topics": Please track per-user info

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-topics-please-track-per-user-info/49519
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [August 31, 2016, 10:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-topics-please-track-per-user-info/49519 "2016-08-31T22:39:17Z")
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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2016, 11:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-topics-please-track-per-user-info/49519/2 "2016-08-31T23:10:54Z")

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So change your user preference thusly:

> Consider topics new when…
> 
> - created since I was here last

Also, we recently added an ambient dim red line on the topic list that shows your date of last visit. Keep an eye out for that.

[![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/a/4/7/a47f489bdc73554e050e5036baa145d690df651c.jpeg "Tower of Power - What Is Hip? (VINYL: Music From The HBO® Original Series) [Official Audio]") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1KCoX_dDBE)

> While you’re striving to find the right road,  
> There’s one thing you should know,  
> What’s hip today, might become passe

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