# Are post read counts per user accurate?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/are-post-read-counts-per-user-accurate/54096
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [December 11, 2016, 5:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/are-post-read-counts-per-user-accurate/54096 "2016-12-11T17:47:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@neil](https://meta.discourse.org/u/neil)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2017, 6:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/are-post-read-counts-per-user-accurate/54096/22 "2017-11-27T18:50:14Z")
> [@neil](#):
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> - includes posts that you can’t see (hidden, deleted)
> - includes posts that have been moved in the topic they don’t belong to anymore, and in their new topic (double counting them)
> - skipping to the end of topic counts all posts as read
I fixed these issues recently ([see here](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bug-or-bot-a-new-user-showing-as-read-a-lot-of-posts/40632/10)). So posts read counts should be accurate from now on.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2020, 12:18am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/are-post-read-counts-per-user-accurate/54096/23 "2020-01-24T00:18:42Z")
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2020, 4:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/are-post-read-counts-per-user-accurate/54096/24 "2020-04-28T04:06:56Z")
3 posts were split to a new topic: [Fixing read counts in migrated forum data](https://meta.discourse.org/t/fixing-read-counts-in-migrated-forum-data/149546)
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2023, 8:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/are-post-read-counts-per-user-accurate/54096/25 "2023-10-01T08:52:49Z")
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