The discussion revolves around the ‘Topics’ column in the ‘Users’ tab, which is intended to show the number of topics created by users. Dieneke notes that the column appears to include both topics created and replies, leading to confusion. codinghorror clarifies that the column already functions as expected, showing only topics created, and points to the meta site for verification. Dieneke reiterates that they meant ‘topics created’—new topics started—and expresses confusion when the column shows 7 topics for a user who has only started 7. codinghorror responds that the count is correct, as the user has created one new topic, and the column reflects only topics created, not replies.
The table in the ‘Users’ tab shows a column with the number of ‘topics’ per users and one with the number of ‘replies’. It is early days for our forum but it looks to me that the ‘Topics’ column displays the sum of the number of topics created and the number of replies.
I would prefer to have a separate column for ‘topics created’ and one for ‘replies’. Does that make sense?
There is already a column for replies in /users. It already works how you are describing, with distinct columns for topics created and replies created.
Hi Jeff, what i meant by ‘topics created’ was new topics started. I have someone who has started 7 new topics, has replied to 2 other topics and the column ‘Topics’ says 9. What i was hoping for is a column that shows that he has started 7 new topics.
That’s odd, that does not jibe what what you see here:
https://meta.discourse.org/users?period=weekly
Notice how under my name it says “topics = 1” which feels correct to me. I probably created 1 new topic in that timeframe. I certainly replied to many, many topics.
What version of Discourse are you on?