# Comportamento estranho da contagem de "Novos Tópicos"?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/odd-behaviour-of-the-new-topics-count/83547>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [Março 22, 2018, 11:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/odd-behaviour-of-the-new-topics-count/83547 "2018-03-22T11:35:49Z")\
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**Post date:** [Março 22, 2018, 11:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/odd-behaviour-of-the-new-topics-count/83547/3 "2018-03-22T23:10:22Z")

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Yes! “Consider topics new if I haven’t viewed them yet” has some built in safeguards to avoid trading in enormously expensive queries.

In particular:

> <https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/f5a3be750c99f3ba89126c61dda51df0571dbe4e/app/jobs/scheduled/periodical_updates.rb#L46-L50>

We allow for max\_new\_topics total on the site.

> <https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/main/config/site_settings.yml#L1163-L1166>

This is a hidden site setting which is hardcoded to 500. We can probably bump it up on your site a bit, but it risks introducing performance problems.

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