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.

Aha, thank you! So we’re not just setting the default, we’re removing the user’s ability to change it. That’s actually what my moderators were requesting.

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