# Setting topic timer to auto-close after last post not suggest dates
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-topic-timer-to-auto-close-after-last-post-not-suggest-dates/383600
**Category:** UX
**Tags:** pr-welcome, topic-timers
**Created:** [September 22, 2025, 8:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-topic-timer-to-auto-close-after-last-post-not-suggest-dates/383600 "2025-09-22T20:56:15Z")
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### Author:  [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2025, 8:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-topic-timer-to-auto-close-after-last-post-not-suggest-dates/383600/1 "2025-09-22T20:56:15Z")
When I set a topic timer to auto-close topic, I am offered a convenient list of dates to choose from. Such a time saver!
However, when I set a timer to auto-close after last post, I am only prompted with a duration. E.g. if I want 30 days I have to type in 30 and select “minutes” and change to “days”. Can this be updated to work like auto-closing?
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### Author:  [@tgxworld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tgxworld)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2025, 7:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-topic-timer-to-auto-close-after-last-post-not-suggest-dates/383600/2 "2025-09-23T07:02:45Z")
> [@tobiaseigen](#):
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> Can this be updated to work like auto-closing?
I’m not sure if we can make it work like auto-closing since auto-closing display a list of dates for specific points in time in the future. What would you like to see as default options for the “Auto-Close Topic After Last Post” timer?
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### Author:  [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2025, 12:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-topic-timer-to-auto-close-after-last-post-not-suggest-dates/383600/3 "2025-09-23T12:36:41Z")
That’s a good point. Perhaps this is more effort than it is worth. If it’s not too much of a lift, it would help to just have a few preset options to quickly click on, like..
1 day
3 days
7 days
14 days
30 days
then the same duration options below that, in case anyone wants to have it auto close a few minutes, hours, months or years after the last post. Others can pipe up if they use other durations regularly, but I find the ones above most useful.
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### Author:  [@tgxworld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tgxworld)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2025, 12:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-topic-timer-to-auto-close-after-last-post-not-suggest-dates/383600/4 "2025-09-25T00:54:58Z")
> [@tobiaseigen](#):
>
> 1 day
> 3 days
> 7 days
> 14 days
> 30 days
Maybe something like the following?
```plaintext
A day after last reply
A week after last reply
Two weeks after last reply
A month after last reply
```
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### Author:  [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2025, 12:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-topic-timer-to-auto-close-after-last-post-not-suggest-dates/383600/5 "2025-09-25T12:46:30Z")
FYI I asked for this before, also for the auto delete replies option. Back then I acquiesced and accepted the current UI. Now that I have been using it more I would like to see user friendly shortcuts as we are discussing.
> [@Also update topic timer UI for auto-delete replies, auto-close after last post](https://meta.discourse.org/t/also-update-topic-timer-ui-for-auto-delete-replies-auto-close-after-last-post/192279):
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> This revamp seems to have missed the topic timer I use most on my Discourse for Teams site - the auto-delete replies topic timer. This is amazingly handy for topics devoted to recurring meetings or procedures/documentation where you want to coordinate in the immediate term but don’t want to keep the replies forever. I also noticed the “auto-close topic after last post” also has not been updated. It also has a fairly scary functioning in that it sets the…