How do I make the about page show exact post counts?

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James-Robert_Knight is considering installing Discourse but needs the About page to display exact post counts (not rounded figures like “12k”) to meet requirements for a geofiction metacommunity that tracks national activity via post counts. After noticing the actual count appears on hover, they asked if it could be displayed directly or made more obvious. Mittineague provided a CSS snippet to override the display and show the exact number from the title attribute. James-Robert_Knight tested it after setup and confirmed it worked perfectly, thanking Mittineague for the solution James-Robert_Knight.

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I am debating whether to install Discourse, but having the exact post count listed is a prerequisute for the metacommunity in which my new community is part of. (It’s a geofiction community that uses post counts to measure national activity.)

I have only seen about pages with inaccurate numbers suck as 12k and 1.2k or such. Is there any way to get those to show exact numbers?

EDIT: I just realised that I can see the actual counts by mousing over the number. Is there any way to make it display the exact number directly, or even make it more obvious that you can mouse over the number? The guy that does the post counts will probably figure it out if we tell him, but things get lost in the shuffle over on the metaforum. heh

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Hi James-Robert_Knight welcome to the forum

Maybe something like this CSS added to your Admin → Customize could work for you?

section.about.stats span.number[title] {
 color: #FFF; 
}
section.about.stats span.number[title]::before {
 content: attr(title);
 color: #000;
}
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I’ll try that once I get it all installed and ready. Waiting on the domain name to go through. I’ll report back when I do it.

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It worked soundly. Thank you very much for the information @Mittineague!