The new-new functionality: why call it "new" not "unread"?

I’m lost. Let’s get back to the start of this.

My setting says this

So I would assume my “new” list only contains topics that were created in the last two days?

My /new list says this though:



(and so on, and so on)

As you can see there are 615 “new” topics. The four at the top are the ones I started, some of them with their last activity over two years ago. Then it just shows topics, in order of most recent activity.
When I change that preference setting the number just gets higher.

My questions:

  • what logic does determine what is in that list?
  • what does that setting do instead (since it does not seem to do what it says it does)
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