The Archived and Closed states of a topic do not have much use by default (I think its observed only for site mails if I remember correctly?).
I wonder if we can at least change the default "Latest" view (for a category or the whole site). To hide those entries? (Unless "Latest" is understood as "all sorted by time", but then I would rename it.)
(I did not find a good label, feel free to remove moderation if you think its not that, also we use archived as moderators for that reason to reduce the load on users)
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