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Ever since some weird remake of the home page, all I see is posts from 15 years ago that get updated by bots or something. Sometimes someone adds an answer (which I don't care about if I want to answer a question), sometimes it's edits I can't even see.

Is it possible to make it show only new posts? I tried looking at settings, it just asks for tags and nothing else.

This is my home page now, it's all decades old posts:

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  • Alternative: Use the "Newest" tab on the questions page
    – Abdul Aziz Barkat
    Commented Apr 2 at 14:34
  • I see one asked 16 hours ago relatively high on the list, usually you can find recently asked... i wonder if something is stuck
    – Kevin B
    Commented Apr 2 at 14:36
  • huh, seems fine now. I see plenty of asked in the past min/10 min now... weird...
    – Kevin B
    Commented Apr 2 at 14:37
  • What seems odd to me is your screenshot shows posts out of order... what is actually going on there? are any of these watched tags? I know they're doing weird things on the home page with watched tags...
    – Kevin B
    Commented Apr 2 at 14:44
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    I set up a redirect on my browser(s) a couple of days after the new home page was released to the questions page, and since then, I continue to forget it exists until someone reminds me it exists and that my Stack Overflow life is better without it..
    – Thom A
    Commented Apr 2 at 14:46

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  • The home page does show recently asked, i don't see how this is an answer to the question.
    – Kevin B
    Commented Apr 2 at 14:38
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    @KevinB If you use the home page, you get to suffer the Community bot bumping old crap just to annoy everyone. As well as users bumping posts by edits. If you use /questions you don't get to see that.
    – Lundin
    Commented Apr 2 at 14:39
  • I can assure you that most posts on my home page are extremely old posts. I did just find the questions tab and made a filter and it seems much more usable.
    – Blindy
    Commented Apr 2 at 14:39
  • @KevinB OP actually doesn't want "active" posts, when they talk about old posts they are talking about old posts that are recently edited, answered, etc. So this does provide an alternative which kind of answers the question.
    – Abdul Aziz Barkat
    Commented Apr 2 at 14:41
  • @Lundin that's mostly just an issue on dead sites, on SO you can routinely see the first 10 slots half filled with recently asked.
    – Kevin B
    Commented Apr 2 at 14:41
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    @KevinB I posted a screenshot taken as I was typing the question, why are you arguing this? I'm not looking for "your eyes deceive you".
    – Blindy
    Commented Apr 2 at 14:46
  • @Blindy Yep that ought to do the trick. You can set up various URL bookmarks in your browser to get the most relevant views for you, like stackoverflow.com/questions/…
    – Lundin
    Commented Apr 2 at 14:46
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    @Blindy because i'm trying to understand your result. I don't get this problem and i use the home page literally every day, i can easily find recently asked questions there. Sure, if you want to see only recently asked, the home page isn't the right location to look.
    – Kevin B
    Commented Apr 2 at 14:47
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    Then say that, the home page is the wrong thing to use on Stack Overflow. It kind of begs a few other questions, but that's another discussion.
    – Blindy
    Commented Apr 2 at 14:48
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    @Blindy Indeed. Most recently it is this problem. Which was unsatisfactory solved by having the home page display 4 cherry-picked post on top followed by 46 trash posts of no interest.
    – Lundin
    Commented Apr 2 at 15:00
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Kinda…

While not the homepage, you can view all new questions using the newest tab on the Questions list, which itself is accessed from "Questions" on the left sidebar.

See also my idea for a customizable homepage.

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