# Watching/Tracking old Topics **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/watching-tracking-old-topics/51606 **Category:** Feature **Created:** [2016 年 10 月 16 日午後 1:15 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/watching-tracking-old-topics/51606 "2016-10-16T13:15:18Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 5
### Author: ![david](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/david/32/157490_2.png) [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david) #### Post date: [2016 年 10 月 16 日午後 11:37 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/watching-tracking-old-topics/51606/5 "2016-10-16T23:37:52Z")
Thanks for taking the time to look at this. The settings on my account are the same as the defaults for all our users - consider new when “haven’t viewed them yet”. I suspect the reason that the topics aren’t all showing up in “new” is because all the users have their “first\_seen\_at” field set to the date of the import, and therefore after the topic was initially created. So I think the problem is: - Topic does not show up in “new” because it was created before the user first visited the forum - Topic does not show up in “unread” because the user has never viewed it I would imagine this logic extends further than imported forums - any new users of a forum who decide to track a category won’t see old topics in new/unread until they’ve viewed the topic at least once. Afraid I don’t know my way around the codebase enough to find the logic for what gets included in the “new” tab, so I could be completely wrong with all of this. Would it be better change “new” from `unviewed topics created since the user first visited` to `unviewed topics with posts since the user first visited` or maybe better would be to change “unread” from `tracked, viewed topics, with unread posts` to `(tracked, viewed topics, with unread posts) + (tracked, unviewed topics, with posts since user first visited, created before user first visited)` --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/watching-tracking-old-topics/51606)._