"Thanks for Contributing" Popup in Posts Appearing Even After Limit Passed?

davidb · July 17, 2025, 4:57pm

Thank you for reporting. I made some changes to simplify the post count as we were previously counting topics and posts separately.

I think this should solve it:

github.com/discourse/discourse

FIX: composer educational limit should use post count (#33650)

committed 02:15PM - 17 Jul 25 UTC

dbattersby

+7 -10

The educational posts site setting (`educate_until_posts`) feels buggy, this is …because the logic for showing these messages treats topics and replies (posts) as a separate count. If `SiteSetting.educate_until_posts` has a value of 2, the user can write multiple replies to existing topics and see the "Welcome to our community! You are brand new here..." message for the first 2 times then it will not show again. However, once they decide to create a topic they will see the message again which doesn't feel right. The solution is to use a combined count (`user.topic_count` and `user.post_count`) and check against the site setting value. That way we don't double up educational messages for both topics and replies when using composer.

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"Thanks for Contributing" Popup in Posts Appearing Even After Limit Passed?

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