Hi, After one year of running our self-hosted travel forum on Discourse, I would like to create an annual report based on the main parameters taken from the Admin Report facility. During the year, the reports show approximately 2,000 topics and around 20,000 posts. Question: Is a topic automatically counted as a post? In our case, that would be 20,000 publications. or do I have to count the number of topics plus the number of posts to get the total number of publications, i.e. 20,000 + 2,000 = 22,000? Thanks for the clarification. ALF [Untitled 2]

[image] Alfi: Is a topic automatically counted as a post? By topic I assume “first post”. I didn’t verify how stats are calculated but I’m 99% sure the answer is “yes”. Note that naming conventions on Discourse define a “topic” as a collection of posts under the same subject/title. The first post of a topic is simply named “first post”. Hence the search filter in:first or the shorthand f.

[image] Canapin: By topic I assume “first post”. Would be logical, I just want to be sure what I’m counting …

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Alfi August 25, 2025, 3:41pm 3

Would be logical, I just want to be sure what I’m counting …

Topic		Replies	Views
Topics and posts in reports Product Support	2	199	November 26, 2024
What's a Post? (Discourse API question) Development	7	1144	August 24, 2021
Total Number of Topics and Posts Product Support	5	2595	May 17, 2019
Total Posts count instead of Post per month Development	2	556	November 1, 2023
Statistic Number of topics created by user Feature	3	1033	August 3, 2015

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