I’ve been trying to improve the new user on boarding experience for my server.
I went through the process of signing up as a new user and noticed that the ‘New & Unread Topics’ are all over 8 months old.
Is there a way to fine-tune what topics are shown?
Best regards,
Stephen
Check the setting: default other new topic duration minutes – “Global default condition for which a topic is considered new.”
If you change it, you may also apply it to all users (it controls the default user preference, and users may override that personally 
).
‘default other new topic duration minutes’ was set at 2 days
The new user I created only minutes ago displayed ‘new and unread’ posts from 2022 - it seems like the new user accounts are created with no time limit on new and unread?
This implies that changing the setting will not impact new users?
S.
I went back and registered a new user after forcing the change for all users. It did seem to improve the results for new and unread for a newly registered user, but they still weren’t within the timeframe specified.
S.
Ps wanted to try gif
Hello 
I guess you mean this section.
This is the Suggested Topics on the left. I think here only the title changed. There are some site settings where you can handle the timeframe. 
suggested topics unread max days old
suggested topics max days old
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