The discussion revolves around whether editing a post bumps it to the top of the feed in Discourse. alltiagocom asks if edits act like a bump and inquires about the bump feature’s availability and limits for admins. Moin clarifies that topics are no longer bumped by edits since September, except for wiki posts. ToddZ explains there’s no direct bump button; instead, topics are bumped by replies or manually by adjusting timestamps, though this can cause confusion. He also mentions the “Reset Bump Date” option. JammyDodger adds that auto-bump timers can be set per topic. alltiagocom concludes that a reply might be more appropriate for their use case, as it provides context and naturally bumps the topic, especially in a “Notes” category.
Whenever I edit something on my original post, for example the very first - and maybe the only - message, does that make the post go up on the feed, similar to a “bump”? Or only when I actually add a new reply?
If edits don’t push it to the top, I remember seeing that there’s the bump feature. Is that a way to push it back to the top of the feed? If so, as an admin, do I have unlimited bumps or is it hardcoded into Discourse where each person can only have N bumps per day/month, regardless of their level?
I had to uninstall Discourse a few months ago, but I will install it again sometime next year (wanna plan as much as possible before starting to spend money again for no reason), so at the moment I can’t test what I’m asking here.
There’s not really a “bump feature” like something you can just click. For normal non-wiki topics, bumping happens naturally when someone replies, and there’s Configuring auto-bumping for topics on a per-category basis.
A way to do it manually is by changing the timestamp as described here – although re-dating topics could cause confusion.
(You may also notice the Reset Bump Date option on the topic wrench menu. This basically un-bumps a topic if you don’t want a reply to move it up on the topic list.)
Thank you for this. I remember seeing this, but at the time it wasn’t something I was thinking of using. And since these posts I have in mind are not urgent to bump, even the default “Tomorrow” would work.
Looking at both replies from you guys and thinking about it, I think that maybe a new reply actually makes more sense for what I was thinking. I want to have a “Notes” category where I just dump stuff, like a so called Digital Garden, so maybe if I make changes, it would make sense to not only bump it, but actually provide some context by replying with those changes.
Thank you both for sharing these tips and info with me.
