Continuing the discussion from How to edit post with API without bumping topic? : I just wanted to add a big thank you to the Discourse team for including the bypass_bump parameter! It’s a small but powerful tool — it allows scripts and plugins to update content behind the scenes without unintention…

this isn’t a misleading praise post, like my last one🙈, because Discourse supports a bypass_bump flag when revising a post; it prevents the topic’s bump date from changing even if you edit the last (or first-and-only) post. This is explicitly listed in the PostRevisor options (“- bypass_bump: do n…

I’m still not 100% sure about the official status of bypass_bump in the API docs — it doesn’t appear anywhere obvious. But when I look at the logs from Ethsim12’s Python sync script, they’re instructive. The script tries to call the API with bypass_bump=true. If that parameter were ignored or inval…

You might be interested in this pull request FEATURE: Do not bump topic on post edit main ← feature/do-not-bump-topic-on-post-edit merged 01:28AM - 22 Sep 25 UTC (UTC) …

Thanks for sharing this PR, moin — really helpful context. For my side project (ics_to_discourse.py importer), I actually just committed a change to stop calendar-driven updates from “noisily” bumping topics: fix: only suppress bump for non-meaningful changes …

I just noticed this in Praise and have moved it to Dev because it is quite technical. Do appreciate the praise, of course! :hugs:

Hmm, i’ve re-read this topic and realised I didn’t include another relevant PR, when i wasn’t active at University and had the time to code Spike: expose bypass_bump param on PUT /posts/:id main ← Ethsim12:spike/bypass-bump …

Apprezzamento per bypass_bump nelle modifiche REST API

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tobiaseigen (Tobias Eigen) 2 Ottobre 2025, 5:39pm 6

Ho appena notato questo in Praise e l’ho spostato in Dev perché è piuttosto tecnico. Apprezzo molto i complimenti, ovviamente!

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Apprezzamento per bypass_bump nelle modifiche REST API

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