# 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: ![awesomerobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/awesomerobot/32/142900_2.png) [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2026, 1:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic/412334/3 "2026-09-14T13:33:48Z")

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usually recent replies are required to get something on the hot topic list, would it be worth closing the topics so people aren’t bumping the activity for them?

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