# New user directed to /top/all, not first item in top menu
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-user-directed-to-top-all-not-first-item-in-top-menu/60877
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [4월 12, 2017, 11:44오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-user-directed-to-top-all-not-first-item-in-top-menu/60877 "2017-04-12T23:44:36Z")
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [4월 12, 2017, 11:44오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-user-directed-to-top-all-not-first-item-in-top-menu/60877/1 "2017-04-12T23:44:36Z")
I (and a client) would expect that after clicking the “activate my account” button the user would be redirected to the same place that [https://site.com/](https://site.com/) takes you, but instead it takes them to /top/all. Is there some setting for this that I’m not aware of?
Or is this a #Contribute > Bug?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [4월 12, 2017, 11:48오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-user-directed-to-top-all-not-first-item-in-top-menu/60877/2 "2017-04-12T23:48:57Z")
New users and users who haven’t been seen for a long time get one-time redirected to /top yes. There should be a message at the top of the page when this happens; @zogstrip orginally wrote the feature. Regression maybe?
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### Author:  [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [4월 12, 2017, 11:51오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-user-directed-to-top-all-not-first-item-in-top-menu/60877/3 "2017-04-12T23:51:52Z")
It’s a site setting
`redirect users to top page` (Automatically redirect new and long absent users to the top page.)
(default enabled)
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [4월 12, 2017, 11:54오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-user-directed-to-top-all-not-first-item-in-top-menu/60877/4 "2017-04-12T23:54:17Z")
> [@david](#):
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> It’s a site setting
Thanks @david!
> [@codinghorror](#):
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> New users and users who haven’t been seen for a long time get one-time redirected to /top yes.
I don’t understand how this is a feature.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [4월 13, 2017, 12:04오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-user-directed-to-top-all-not-first-item-in-top-menu/60877/5 "2017-04-13T00:04:05Z")
See
[https://meta.discourse.org/t/as-a-new-user-back-button-takes-me-back-to-top/17338/4?u=codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/t/as-a-new-user-back-button-takes-me-back-to-top/17338/4)
It is the difference between
> Hail new user, and well met! Here is a list of our latest bullcrap!
and
> Hail new user, and well met! Here is a list of the very best things this community has produced in the last year!
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### Author:  [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [4월 13, 2017, 3:53오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-user-directed-to-top-all-not-first-item-in-top-menu/60877/6 "2017-04-13T03:53:23Z")
I like this feature. And there is indeed a notice at the top of the one time /top view with eg “here’s the top topics from this past year” or some such. I am paraphrasing from memory.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [5월 24, 2019, 11:30오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-user-directed-to-top-all-not-first-item-in-top-menu/60877/7 "2019-05-24T23:30:57Z")
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [6월 23, 2019, 11:30오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-user-directed-to-top-all-not-first-item-in-top-menu/60877/8 "2019-06-23T23:30:58Z")
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