Auto Close Topic by # of posts?

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The discussion revolves around finding the “auto close topics post count” site setting in Discourse. Twi is looking to close topics after a certain number of posts, rather than a time limit. After searching, Twi couldn’t find the setting. rorycb initially suggested the “auto close messages post count” setting, but this only applies to private messages. rorycb later confirmed that the “auto close topics post count” setting exists, but only for self-hosted instances, not SaaS hosted ones. According to rorycb, the default setting for SaaS hosted instances is 10,000 posts.

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I’m looking for the site setting referenced in this topic. “auto close topics post count”

I do see the setting for the merged feature,

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And above that, the setting that manages the max number of posts on private message topics

…but I don’t see anywhere in settings where I can set it that topics should close after, say 5000 posts. I thought perhaps it needed to be defined by category but I don’t see anything there (that would be even more useful tbh). To be clear, I don’t want to set a timer on the topic, it’s specifically the post count I’m trying to control. I feel like I’m missing something obvious x.x

Thanks for the help!

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That would be this site setting auto close topics post count

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I understand that’s what it’s called, but where, precisely, is that located?

And a pre-emptive answer that yes, I’ve used the search in settings.

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In admin->settings filter for auto close messages post count to set the number of posts to auto-close after.

For the record, a settings filter of auto close would have found it for you, that’s have I found the exact name.

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This only affects private messages. I’m looking for auto close topics post count

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That’ll teach me for skimming descriptions :expressionless:

I don’t have access to my non-hosted instance at the moment, so can’t double check there - hosted instance doesn’t allow that post count settings to be changed as far as I remember

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Haha… no problem. :wink:

OK, that might be the answer I’m looking for… Thank you!

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Just double checked - self hosted has auto close topics post count. SaaS hosted does not. If you are SaaS hosted you can’t change it, I believe it is set to 10,000 ( Noted here: The MEGATOPIC: public good, or public menace? - #17 by jomaxro)