# New / Unread counts missing when "too many tracked topics"

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-unread-counts-missing-when-too-many-tracked-topics/32922>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [September 4, 2015, 6:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-unread-counts-missing-when-too-many-tracked-topics/32922 "2015-09-04T18:37:23Z")\
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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:** [September 7, 2015, 10:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-unread-counts-missing-when-too-many-tracked-topics/32922/10 "2015-09-07T10:10:37Z")

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If you hit 500, we automatically press “dismiss new” and “dismiss unread” for you on the 300 oldest things. That’s how I understand it. Is this correct @sam?

So you are automagically bumped down to 200 things being tracked, once you hit 500.

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