# Whats up with the Unread category?
**URL:** https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/whats-up-with-the-unread-category/15177
**Category:** Site Feedback
**Created:** [March 25, 2018, 5:32pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/whats-up-with-the-unread-category/15177 "2018-03-25T17:32:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Litppunk](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Litppunk)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2018, 5:32pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/whats-up-with-the-unread-category/15177/1 "2018-03-25T17:32:09Z")
I used to think that unread brought up all the stuff you hadn’t read in, order of how recent of activity there had been, but I just looked at 2 three year old topics on top of my list, in front of things like the Brownlike bears thread and vehicle additions Pack thread. What happened?
I don’t see sort options that would do something like that. Does it have some kind of ‘you might also be interested in X’ formula in play?
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### Author:  [@BorkBorkGoesTheCode](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/BorkBorkGoesTheCode)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2018, 7:20pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/whats-up-with-the-unread-category/15177/2 "2018-03-25T19:20:23Z")
Did you dismiss all notifications when you first got back?
It’s possible that deleted necroposts may leave residue in unread.
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### Author:  [@kevin.granade](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/kevin.granade)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2018, 9:29pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/whats-up-with-the-unread-category/15177/3 "2018-03-25T21:29:14Z")
See [PSA: Reset everything to read so it stops bugging you about the 2,000+ unread topics](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/psa-reset-everything-to-read-so-it-stops-bugging-you-about-the-2-000-unread-topics/14490) for details about BorkBork’s comment.
As for your question about sorting, I think it is trying to do “smart” ordering, but I don’t know the details.
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### Author:  [@Litppunk](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Litppunk)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2018, 3:12am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/whats-up-with-the-unread-category/15177/4 "2018-03-26T03:12:20Z")
Ok, thanks, It doesn’t bother me but I was curious what was happening, when 3 year old topics were on top.