# Can I set up a trending topic now?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic/412334
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [September 14, 2026, 7:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic/412334 "2026-09-14T07:12:31Z")
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### Author: ![olivia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/olivia/32/324299_2.png) [@olivia](https://meta.discourse.org/u/olivia)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2026, 10:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic/412334/2 "2026-09-14T10:04:21Z")

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There isn’t currently a setting to exclude older topics from Hot based on their age or how long they’ve been inactive.

Hot does take age and recent activity into account when calculating the score, but there isn’t a hard cutoff.

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