# Archive Topics making search hard to use **URL:** \ **Category:** Meta Elastic\ **Created:** [July 14, 2015, 1:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/archive-topics-making-search-hard-to-use/25522 "2015-07-14T13:18:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![colings86](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/colings86/32/44960_2.png) [@colings86](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/colings86)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2015, 1:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/archive-topics-making-search-hard-to-use/25522/1 "2015-07-14T13:18:26Z")
Finding topics is very hard currently because most of time the top page of results are exclusively very old archive (from GGroups) topics. Can we can set the search order to boost non-archive topics so topics created recently (since we moved to Discourse) appear first? ---
**Author:** ![nik9000](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nik9000/32/44947_2.png) [@nik9000](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nik9000)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2015, 1:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/archive-topics-making-search-hard-to-use/25522/2 "2015-07-14T13:39:19Z")
For this kind of site I think having a boost on the topic's last modified date would be useful. Something like 60% of the score should exponentially decay with a half-life of 20 days. Wikinews has used that forever and it seems to work well for it. It uses 100 days I think. Its pretty simple to do with Elasticsearch and Lucene Expressions. The suggested topics should really work the same way. All of my suggested topics are from 2014.... ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Saffron](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sam_saffron/32/44937_2.png) [@Sam\_Saffron](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sam_Saffron)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 5:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/archive-topics-making-search-hard-to-use/25522/3 "2015-07-15T05:56:03Z")
Interesting idea, will keep it in mind next round I do on search. I think a decaying bump is a pretty good idea. Also want to add an option that allows moderators to bump priority for categories. cc @codinghorror In the mean time adding `order:latest` will order by latest which will help a bunch. [https://discuss.elastic.co/search?q=archive%20order%3Alatest](https://discuss.elastic.co/search?q=archive%20order%3Alatest) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 1:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/archive-topics-making-search-hard-to-use/25522/4 "2017-07-06T13:47:28Z")