# Unread indicators

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/unread-indicators/45150>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [June 2, 2016, 5:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unread-indicators/45150 "2016-06-02T17:09:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 4

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 8:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unread-indicators/45150/4 "2016-06-02T20:19:35Z")

</div>

If you click or tap on unread, it explains what it is, like so:

> Your unread topics appear here.
> 
> By default, topics are considered unread and will show unread counts if you:
> 
> - Created the topic
> - Replied to the topic
> - Read the topic for more than 4 minutes
> - Or if you have explicitly set the topic to Tracked or Watched via the notification control at the bottom of each topic.
> 
> Visit your [preferences](https://meta.discourse.org/users/codinghorror/preferences) to change this.

---

_[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unread-indicators/45150)._