# 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")\
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**Author:** ![Mittineague](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mittineague/32/114259_2.png) [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 10:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unread-indicators/45150/7 "2016-06-02T22:29:53Z")

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> [@precessor](#):
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> because Latest refers to posts

I can understand how you might think that.

But I have always thought of it as  
“Latest _topics_ that have received posts”

Because the way Discourse has endless scroll, I think the largest “sum” of posts would be limited to what has been loaded in.

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