# Prioritize recent content by date **URL:** \ **Category:** Elastic Search\ **Tags:** elastic-app-search\ **Created:** [April 7, 2021, 2:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/prioritize-recent-content-by-date/269483 "2021-04-07T14:27:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![constancecchen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/constancecchen/32/71762_2.png) [@constancecchen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/constancecchen)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2021, 4:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/prioritize-recent-content-by-date/269483/2 "2021-04-07T16:13:37Z")
Hey hey! So unfortunately, there's a known issue with our recency boosts where the boost decay falls off too quickly. Essentially, the boost you added works, but it only significantly boosts dates within say, the last 2 days or so, and does not boost dates farther away (e.g. a week or more). So I'd definitely expect the results you're seeing, which is dates as far away as a year or more 😬 Apologies for that - it's definitely on our radar to work on ways to tune results more, although I don't know if the recency boost is on our short-term roadmap (I think we actually removed it from our documentation because it wasn't working as expected). Here's a couple workarounds you could try in the meanwhile: - Add the ability to sort by date, and highlight that in your UX - Weighting by a specific year cut-off - for example, if you want to boost docs more recent than 2 years ago, you could add a value boost for the sub-2 year docs Hope that helps, and let me know if the value boost workaround doesn't make sense and I can try to clarify! --- _[View the full topic](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/prioritize-recent-content-by-date/269483)._