I tried to find a topic today but failed to find it with the topic filter. I love that I can search for topics based on participants. I often remember these better than keywords for searching.
Today I searched for topics where David and I had participated. The topic I was looking for is Do not show topics and PMs to admins unless they are participants.
When it didn’t show up in the filtered topic list https://meta.discourse.org/filter?q=users%3Adavid%2Bmoin I thought maybe I was wrong about David being the one I talked to. But after I found the topic in search I saw that I was right.
So I thought maybe there was a reason why it was hidden when I used the filter. So I added the category to the topic filter https://meta.discourse.org/filter?q=users%3Adavid%2Bmoin%20category%3Afeature%20 and there it is:
But once I remove the category filter, the topic does not appear in the filtered list:
The topic with the last activity in February 2025 should be between the topics from September 2025 and January 2025. The gap is where “load more” happened. So it feels like something doesn’t work correctly when there are more than 30 topics matching the filter.
While I was writing this bug report, I found out that changing the order of the usernames in the filter seems to matter.
While the first 30 results seem to be the same no matter which order I enter the names, the topics loaded on “load-more” differ. I highlighted the first line that is different. While you can notice a gap between September and January on the left, the result on the right is even more surprising." Load more" returns topics with an activity date which is more recent than the one above.
| david+Moin[1] Title | Bumped_at | Moin+david[2] Title | Bumped_at |
|---|---|---|---|
Locations Plugin  |
January 4, 2026 | Locations Plugin |
January 4, 2026 |
| Daily Summary Feedback | January 4, 2026 | Daily Summary Feedback | January 4, 2026 |
| Topic List Previews (TLP) | January 3, 2026 | Topic List Previews (TLP) | January 3, 2026 |
| Topic List Thumbnails | January 2, 2026 | Topic List Thumbnails | January 2, 2026 |
| User Card Directory | December 30, 2025 | User Card Directory | December 30, 2025 |
| /about listing of Admins vs Moderators is confusing | December 29, 2025 | /about listing of Admins vs Moderators is confusing | December 29, 2025 |
Winter snow theme component  |
December 23, 2025 | Winter snow theme component |
December 23, 2025 |
| Clickable Topic | December 19, 2025 | Clickable Topic | December 19, 2025 |
| Topic Cards | December 18, 2025 | Topic Cards | December 18, 2025 |
| Discourse Who’s Online | December 16, 2025 | Discourse Who’s Online | December 16, 2025 |
| Toggling the \AI search discoveries\ preference doesn’t work | December 12, 2025 | Toggling the \AI search discoveries\ preference doesn’t work | December 12, 2025 |
| ActivityPub Plugin | December 10, 2025 | ActivityPub Plugin | December 10, 2025 |
| Discourse Advertising Plugin (Ads) | December 6, 2025 | Discourse Advertising Plugin (Ads) | December 6, 2025 |
| Discourse AI | December 4, 2025 | Discourse AI | December 4, 2025 |
| Link for old browsers doesn’t work on old browsers | December 1, 2025 | Link for old browsers doesn’t work on old browsers | December 1, 2025 |
| Sticky header gone | November 28, 2025 | Sticky header gone | November 28, 2025 |
| Unformatted Code Detector | November 21, 2025 | Unformatted Code Detector | November 21, 2025 |
| How to reliably & programmatically get the latest version number of Discourse? | November 14, 2025 | How to reliably & programmatically get the latest version number of Discourse? | November 14, 2025 |
| Discourse User Notes | November 14, 2025 | Discourse User Notes | November 14, 2025 |
| Discourse Topic Voting | November 13, 2025 | Discourse Topic Voting | November 13, 2025 |
| Discourse Solved | November 8, 2025 | Discourse Solved | November 8, 2025 |
| Bundling more popular plugins with Discourse core | November 4, 2025 | Bundling more popular plugins with Discourse core | November 4, 2025 |
| Discourse Category Headers theme component | November 1, 2025 | Discourse Category Headers theme component | November 1, 2025 |
| Missing PluginOutlet for second-factor.gjs component and for second-factor-add-totp.gjs | October 24, 2025 | Missing PluginOutlet for second-factor.gjs component and for second-factor-add-totp.gjs | October 24, 2025 |
| Latest topics missing from category view | October 15, 2025 | Latest topics missing from category view | October 15, 2025 |
| Discourse Category Lockdown | October 15, 2025 | Discourse Category Lockdown | October 15, 2025 |
Multilingual Plugin  |
October 7, 2025 | Multilingual Plugin |
October 7, 2025 |
| Post Badges | September 19, 2025 | Post Badges | September 19, 2025 |
| Discourse Affiliate | September 18, 2025 | Discourse Affiliate | September 18, 2025 |
| Developing Discourse on GitHub Codespaces | September 9, 2025 | Developing Discourse on GitHub Codespaces | September 9, 2025 |
| Login and Logout Errors from Cache Settings Conflict with Cloudflare | January 7, 2025 | Discourse Category Headers theme component | November 1, 2025 |
| Selectable avatars upload broken (Missing required UppyUpload config: id) | October 28, 2024 | Missing PluginOutlet for second-factor.gjs component and for second-factor-add-totp.gjs | October 24, 2025 |
| Can the Unformatted Code Detector be disabled per user? | July 31, 2024 | Discourse Data Explorer | October 22, 2025 |
| Inconsistency in plural definition | July 29, 2024 | Latest topics missing from category view | October 15, 2025 |
| New topic map causing infinite-loading loop | July 26, 2024 | Discourse Category Lockdown | October 15, 2025 |
| Issue with pluralized (count) translation override | July 22, 2024 | Multilingual Plugin |
October 7, 2025 |
| Bad MF translation string in hebrew client locale causes fatal site error | July 22, 2024 | Creating a component to show last-chance warning when replying to old topics | October 6, 2025 |
| TOC missing after using browsers back button | January 25, 2024 | Post Badges | September 19, 2025 |
| Title of /tag/xxx | December 4, 2023 | Discourse Affiliate | September 18, 2025 |
| Browser Back -function occasionally broken on Android | November 27, 2023 | Discourse Docs | September 16, 2025 |
| Tag information issue | November 20, 2023 | Developing Discourse on GitHub Codespaces | September 9, 2025 |
| Topic preview of pinned topic disappears | November 7, 2023 | Install Discourse for development using Docker | September 8, 2025 |
| Please don’t double link urls if one pastes over a URL in markdown | December 3, 2021 | Add tags with capital letters | September 7, 2025 |
| Discourse Templates | September 2, 2025 | ||
| Advanced Header Search | August 27, 2025 | ||
| Third-party plugin repository hijacked | August 19, 2025 | ||
| New header dropdown / notification menu styles | August 13, 2025 | ||
| Text color field for categories missing after update | August 8, 2025 | ||
| Custom Homepage for Groups | August 6, 2025 | ||
| Option to hide IP addresses from moderators | August 6, 2025 | ||
Inconsistent behavior with chat max direct message users setting |
August 5, 2025 | ||
| Custom Header Links (icons) | August 4, 2025 | ||
| What are good plugins or theme components for a forum emphasizing pictures? | August 4, 2025 | ||
| Downloading local copies of images should not change text in code blocks | August 2, 2025 | ||
| EmojiPicker missing in mobile chat | August 1, 2025 | ||
| 最新版更新出错 | July 28, 2025 | ||
| \Thanks for Contributing\ Popup in Posts Appearing Even After Limit Passed? | July 17, 2025 | ||
| New Discourse Lightbox Enabled on Meta - now disabled | July 12, 2025 | ||
| Announcing: AI Web Artifacts | June 27, 2025 | ||
| Discourse-tag-sidebars and deprecated inline script tags | June 20, 2025 |