Clicking on "New Topics" gives a message "Your criteria is not restrictive enough"

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Originally Posted by Lynne

Go to Site Builder > Navigation > click to edit New Topics item > change it to:

search?searchJSON=%7B"date"%3A"lastVisit"%2C"view"%3A"topic"%2C"unread_only"%3A1%2C"sort"%3A%7B"lastcontent"%3A"desc"%7D%2C"exclude_type"%3A%5B"vBForum_PrivateMessage"%5D%7D

Had the same problem. Don't know why, I have never touched the "New Topics" link, so vBulletin seems to ship it broken...

Your solution however, does seem to work for me, although with a minor change: the double quotes should be percent encoded:

search?searchJSON=%7B%22date%22%3A%22lastVisit%22%2C%22view%22%3A%22topic%22%2C%22unread_only%22%3A1%2C%22sort%22%3A%7B%22lastcontent%22%3A%22desc%22%7D%2C%22exclude_type%22%3A%5B%22vBForum_PrivateMessage%22%5D%7D

So basically, the code went from (not yet percent encoded, for readability):

search?searchJSON=%7B"date"%3A"lastVisit"%2C"view"%3A"topic"%2C"unread_only"%3A1%2C"sort"%3A%7B"lastcontent"%3A"desc"%7D%2C"exclude_type"%3A%5B"vBForum_PrivateMessage"%5D%7D

to (not yet percent encoded, for readability):

search?searchJSON=%7B"date"%3A"lastVisit"%2C"view"%3A"topic"%2C"unread_only"%3A1%2C"sort"%3A%7B"lastcontent"%3A"desc"%7D%2C"exclude_type"%3A%5B"vBForum_PrivateMessage"%5D%7D