# 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:** [Septembre 4, 2015, 6:37 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:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [Septembre 5, 2015, 11:11 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-unread-counts-missing-when-too-many-tracked-topics/32922/6 "2015-09-05T11:11:49Z")

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I want to work a bit more on the root cause before fighting in the (\*) change. Lots of code expects the counts to be numbers so it is a rather extensive change to get in.

We should not be allowing people to treat a topic that is 12 months old as “new”, we need some saner caps. This would actually solve the issue for you at least here.

On sites like [http://www.helloforos.com/](http://www.helloforos.com/) where they are churning 200 new topics a day we need a way to wind down the caps to and set them globally so, new === 24 hours or less old for everyone (with no user options)

I would like to first address some of the root issues before coming back to the UI here

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