# 10,000 post limit too low
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/10-000-post-limit-too-low/51575
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 15, 2016, 12:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/10-000-post-limit-too-low/51575 "2016-10-15T00:56:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@ossia](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ossia)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2016, 12:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/10-000-post-limit-too-low/51575/1 "2016-10-15T00:56:57Z")
We have a thread that has reached 10,000 posts and became locked. How do we unlock this or raise the limit?
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### Author:  [@DeanMarkTaylor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeanMarkTaylor)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2016, 1:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/10-000-post-limit-too-low/51575/2 "2016-10-15T01:02:30Z")
This feature is there for a reason, refer to this topic where the feature was introduced:
> [@Using private / personal messages as long term chat](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-private-personal-messages-as-long-term-chat/41356):
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> One thing we’ve noticed come up on a few sites is a pattern of behavior where users make almost no public posts, but spend most of their time in very, very long PM topics that can be tens of thousands of replies long There are a few problems with this: We currently have a massive perf problem with longer topics as we send down a list of all IDs of all replies in the topic, which can be enormous – if the topic is 50k replies long, it includes 50k ids in a list in every request. Longer term…
Note this “auto closing” helps keep Discourse performance high.
The setting you might be interested in is:
“`auto close topics post count`”
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2016, 1:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/10-000-post-limit-too-low/51575/3 "2016-10-15T01:10:38Z")
Admin \> Settings \> search for `auto close topics post count`
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### Author:  [@ossia](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ossia)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2016, 5:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/10-000-post-limit-too-low/51575/4 "2016-10-15T05:21:08Z")
> [@cpradio](#):
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> auto close topics post count
Great! Thank you for pointing out that this option existed. Based on @DeanMarkTaylor’s explanation, I will leave this as default.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2016, 5:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/10-000-post-limit-too-low/51575/5 "2016-10-15T05:24:10Z")
It can be OK, but older Mobile devices and _particularly_ older Android devices will be severely punished performance wise on topics with a lot more than 10k posts.
We do plan to eventually fix this, but it may take a year or more.
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### Author:  [@ossia](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ossia)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2016, 5:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/10-000-post-limit-too-low/51575/6 "2016-11-04T05:36:42Z")
OK - thanks for the additional information. I will just plan to open new threads when they hit 10k comments.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2019, 11:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/10-000-post-limit-too-low/51575/7 "2019-03-24T23:43:30Z")
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2019, 11:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/10-000-post-limit-too-low/51575/8 "2019-03-24T23:49:24Z")
2 years later @ossia how is the new limit fairing on your forum?
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### Author:  [@ossia](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ossia)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2019, 2:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/10-000-post-limit-too-low/51575/9 "2019-03-25T02:14:17Z")
Thanks for following up, Sam.
This hasn’t been an issue for us at all.
We stopped using “introduce yourself” threads, and since then, few of our threads have even approached the 1,000 comment mark, so I think 10,000 is a sane default.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2019, 3:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/10-000-post-limit-too-low/51575/10 "2019-03-25T03:13:05Z")
> [@ossia](#):
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> We stopped using “introduce yourself” threads,
It’s fine to break this up by year or even every few years. A 10 year old introduction isn’t quite.. right.
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2022, 7:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/10-000-post-limit-too-low/51575/12 "2022-05-19T07:16:02Z")