# Strange behavior for 'top default timeframe'
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/strange-behavior-for-top-default-timeframe/246761
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [November 25, 2022, 10:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/strange-behavior-for-top-default-timeframe/246761 "2022-11-25T22:37:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@MarcP](https://meta.discourse.org/u/MarcP)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2022, 10:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/strange-behavior-for-top-default-timeframe/246761/1 "2022-11-25T22:37:36Z")
The setting: `top page default timeframe` is currently set to yearly and it’s working fine.
Changing it to quarterly:
- Logged in user: /top shows yearly
- Anon: /top shows since the beginning
Same for all other values. Can someone repro this?
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### Author:  [@Don](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Don)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2022, 3:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/strange-behavior-for-top-default-timeframe/246761/2 "2022-11-26T15:35:50Z")
Hello,
This is hopefully useful for you. 🙂
> [@Popular Topics | By Default Today](https://meta.discourse.org/t/popular-topics-by-default-today/236281/9):
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> No worries. slight_smile If you lower the topics per period in top page number to something that is less than the amount of topics for today it will allow the default to show as ‘daily’: If it is a higher number than the new topics for today it will flip to the next period that satisfies the topics per period in top page amount: (I have only created one topic on my test site in the last day) And I think topics per period in top summary also plays a r…
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### Author:  [@MarcP](https://meta.discourse.org/u/MarcP)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2022, 9:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/strange-behavior-for-top-default-timeframe/246761/3 "2022-11-28T09:46:34Z")
Thanks, this helped, it does not make sense to me, but changing this to a random lower value seemed to work.
My top setting is Quarterly.
Setting the other setting to 1, made /top show daily.
Setting is to 15, made /top show quarterly.