Why might all our users show as "new"?

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watchmanmonitor reports that in a self-hosted Discourse instance running since January 2014, all 996 users, including staff, appear under the “New Users” admin page (/admin/users/list/new). They suspect a changed setting might be causing this behavior. olivia clarifies that this is expected functionality: the New Users page lists all users sorted by registration date (newest first) and does not filter based on recency. Consequently, the issue is not related to any altered settings.

Our self hosted discourse is quite old (started Jan 2014) and when I click on “new users”

/admin/users/list/new all 996 users show up (even staff)

What settings might I have altered over the years which would cause discourse to think everyone is new?

Hi Allen,

This is expected behaviour. The New Users page lists all users, including staff, sorted by registration date (newest first). It doesn’t filter by how recently they registered.

So this doesn’t appear to be a settings issue.