Maybe there is a confusion with “topics” and “posts”. I expected that creating a new topic is just a special type of post. The database structure supports that.
But when checking the user profile statistics, they say something along the lines “2 topics created, 0 posts created”.
So maybe the “post_count” that I get is rather the number of replies to topics than the number of all posts?
On the other hand, there is a date “last_posted_at” which contains the date when the last topic was created. So at least, there is some inconsistency in naming here. I would expect the number “post_count” to include first posts in new topics, as well.
Anyway, whether this is intended behavior or not, I do not find a topic_count or alike in the user json. How do I find out the total number of posts, including new topics?