I’m dealing with a request from our moderators relating to how pinned topics work, and I found the following in our site settings: [Screenshot 2024-09-23 at 12.29.57] What’s the difference between “automatically unpin topics” and “default topics automatically unpin”? I found some references to us…

[image] Stu West: found some references to users being able to set a preference for pinned topics in their /my/preferences/interface page but that doesn’t seem to exist in my install. The user peference is only visible if automatically unpin topics is enabled.

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tobiaseigen (Tobias Eigen) Split this topic October 21, 2025, 8:22pm 6

4 posts were split to a new topic: Can we improve usability of pinned topic site settings?

Topic		Replies	Views
Disabling automatic topic unpinning? Feature	18	4241	May 16, 2017
Can we improve usability of pinned topic site settings? UX	4	28	October 21, 2025
Pinned Topic -- How Do We Always Keep it Pinned? Feature	11	7200	June 21, 2024
How to I stop topics automatically un-pinning when a user reaches the bottom? Support	14	1113	April 26, 2022
Pinned topics gone Support	6	1485	June 8, 2024

Question about pinned topics settings

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