How do you mute bumped topics?

Excuse me for being misinformed, but is there an option to mute topics regardless of it being bumped?

And if so, where is it? Thanks

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Wdym muting bumped topic? You can only mute the whole category, not just a topic.
Oof, my bad.

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Yeh I suppose the whole category, eh.

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No I mean is there a way to mule all topics that are bumped?

So, for example someone bumps a topic, it doesn’t shoot up to the latest or whatever.

I don’t see it or get notified about it. Because someone bumped a 5 year old topic and I was about to contribute, luckily I saw the date.

No there isn’t, might wanna consult meta.discourse.org for that one. Replying to a topic with an 8+ day period of inactivity is considered bumping. That is why if you have ever seen any topics that are replied to that had <7 days of inactivity the “x days later” doesn’t show.

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Hmm, I’m completely unfamiliar with discourse and I’m not a member.

It would be nice if we had an option to customise all topics, within a threshold of being bumped. For example all topics that are 5 years old won’t show. Something like that. It’s kind of annoying when you get a 2008 bumped topic showing up.

A 2008 thread? lolwut, I don’t even think the devforum has EXISTED that long.

Yes, I was reading a few I’m remember correctly.

I don’t recall of the dates, but I saw a lot of NexusAvenger and EchoReaper.
The forum is an ancient artifact.

Hmm, I don’t believe that does it. I have mine already set to “last 2 days”.

Why so?

Why would you want to mute a topic simply because it is old? Doesn’t sound like good ux. You just don’t want bumped topics to appear in certain sorts.

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Because what purpose do those topics have? They are literally 10 years or so old.

sure, I’ll go with your second point.
Proposal: Allow users to mute topics that are bumped through a customisable length threshold.

A bumped topic relatively old is pointless, something newer can be an exception. Even though you stated that you can’t bump topics within “x” of inactivity.

What if this bump is too long? What if you want to ask something and you bumped it over a small period? That would mean it wouldn’t show up. We should have a bit of a say over this bump, smaller bumps may prove to be worthwhile, whilst something as old from years back isn’t really.

Btw, I meant all topics.

I also have to ask does muting mean it won’t show up in the sorts?