# Watching/Tracking old Topics

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/watching-tracking-old-topics/51606
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [2016 年10 月 16 日 13:15 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/watching-tracking-old-topics/51606 "2016-10-16T13:15:18Z")
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### 作者： ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### 发布日期： [2016 年10 月 20 日 23:50 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/watching-tracking-old-topics/51606/15 "2016-10-20T23:50:00Z")

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> [@david](#):
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> what do you think about changing the new logic to be bumped\_at rather than created\_at?

I don’t know, maybe add a hook there so you can easily amend it in a plugin.

The problem with a change like that is that lots of users will get very confused about how to kick stuff out of new list.

cc @codinghorror

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