Yeah this is a bit of a mismatch between the consolidated new and the original topic/reply split implementation.
With the original implementation this setting is simpler to understand… as far as I know this setting is still technically accurate with the consolidated new, but it’s less clear.
What I mean by that is in your screenshots we are only showing new topics created in the last 2 days. If I’m understanding correctly, the confusion is that we’re also showing old topics with new replies beyond that window in the same list.
Again I’m being pedantic and it’s not your fault this isn’t clear, but you have 8 new topics and 607 topics with new replies. You have 615 new “items.”
The simplest way to clarify this might be consolidating the setting too. Maybe it would become…
Consider posts new when [created x]
…and then that gets applied to both?
Though I’m sure there are people with completely valid cases for having separate time periods for both[1], so maybe we have an advanced setting that still allows that sort of split?
we often get feedback that we should simplify, but it’s difficult because when we do stuff like this existing power users miss it ↩︎