Is this still the case?
My use-case is: Posts on my Ghost blog create topics on Discourse. I’ve followed an aforementioned suggestion by Ghost’s founder to truncate the length of the slug, which I did with my most recent post. Discourse creates the slug from the title of the post, not the slug of the post. While that all works fine, I’ve also got a discourse-get-comment-count script in use which displays on the home page (as well as at the top of each individual post) how many comments each post has. Problem is, it’s querying Discourse (if I have the lingo correctly) for the post’s slug, not its title, and so it doesn’t discover the actual comment count. (You can see the post at the top of the site has the comment count stuck on the spinner.)
Is there anything I can do about that besides not customising the slug?