Continuing the discussion from How to edit post with API without bumping topic? : I just wanted to add a big thank you to the Discourse team for including the bypass_bump parameter! It’s a small but powerful tool — it allows scripts and plugins to update content behind the scenes without unintention…

this isn’t a misleading praise post, like my last one:see_no_evil_monkey:, because Discourse supports a bypass_bump flag when revising a post; it prevents the topic’s bump date from changing even if you edit the last (or first-and-only) post. This is explicitly listed in the PostRevisor options (…

I’m still not 100% sure about the official status of bypass_bump in the API docs — it doesn’t appear anywhere obvious. But when I look at the logs from Ethsim12’s Python sync script, they’re instructive. The script tries to call the API with bypass_bump=true. If that parameter were ignored or inval…

You might be interested in this pull request https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/34681

Thanks for sharing this PR, moin — really helpful context. For my side project (ics_to_discourse.py importer), I actually just committed a change to stop calendar-driven updates from “noisily” bumping topics: https://github.com/Ethsim12/Discourse-ICS-importer-by-REST-API/commit/7297ab707c306a10984…

I just noticed this in Community Building > Praise and have moved it to Development because it is quite technical. Do appreciate the praise, of course! :hugs:

Hmm, i’ve re-read this topic and realised I didn’t include another relevant PR, when i wasn’t active at University and had the time to code https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/34712

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tobiaseigen (Tobias Eigen) 2025 年10 月 2 日 17:39 6

我刚刚在 Community Building > Praise 中注意到了这条消息，由于内容相当技术化，已将其移至 #dev。当然，非常感谢大家的称赞！

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