# Slow mode and auto closing: minutes aren’t an option

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/slow-mode-and-auto-closing-minutes-aren-t-an-option/257103
**Category:** Bug
**Tags:** slow-mode
**Created:** [March 5, 2023, 9:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/slow-mode-and-auto-closing-minutes-aren-t-an-option/257103 "2023-03-05T09:00:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![Jagster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jagster/32/192154_2.png) [@Jagster](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jagster)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2023, 9:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/slow-mode-and-auto-closing-minutes-aren-t-an-option/257103/1 "2023-03-05T09:00:58Z")

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When I open settings of a category and I want to setup slow mode and/or auto closing, mins are default and there is option choose hours, days etc.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/2/2/9/229d352fbef92e35cf75a80f30d54f3b57d0954c.jpeg)

If I use anythng else than minutes, and at some point I want to change back to minutes that isn’t available any more.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/1/1/6/116a4471307569274d6b56f2187081002c691bea.jpeg)

I reckon minutes are quite rarely used, but slow mode is a bit different thing. When I want cool down overheated topic, for my user between 15 - 30 mins is enough, because only those who are online at the moment are an issue.

So this is defenetly not a major class issue. And there is big chance this should not be counted as a bug, but UI flaw instead.

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### Author: ![Canapin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/canapin/32/119591_2.png) [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2023, 12:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/slow-mode-and-auto-closing-minutes-aren-t-an-option/257103/2 "2023-03-06T12:20:56Z")

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Indeed, I can repro the issue, thanks Jagster 👍

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### Author: ![ted](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ted/32/283882_2.png) [@ted](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ted)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2023, 2:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/slow-mode-and-auto-closing-minutes-aren-t-an-option/257103/4 "2023-03-07T02:59:27Z")

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Thanks for the report, @Jagster! 🙏

I’ve created a fix for this [here](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/20552):

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/20552](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/20552)

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### Author: ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2023, 8:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/slow-mode-and-auto-closing-minutes-aren-t-an-option/257103/5 "2023-03-14T08:00:23Z")

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