What is $modSettings['maxMsgID'] used for?

[RRasco]

What is this setting used for?  I have searched and any question pertaining this has always gone unanswered.  More importantly, where is it set?

[codenaught]

It's not a setting. It stores the highest message ID of your forum, mainly so it doesn't have to be calculated on the fly each time it is used.

[RRasco]

Thanks.  MKPortal uses this to restrict the topics that can be displayed as news.  Which IMO is dumb as all get out, but whatever, I can fix it.  Thanks again ak.

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WHERE m.ID_MSG = t.ID_FIRST_MSG
    AND m.ID_MSG >= " . max(0, $modSettings['maxMsgID'] - 200 * $limit) . "