# Automatically closed posts to a topic counts as a reply, when it shouldn’t

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-closed-posts-to-a-topic-counts-as-a-reply-when-it-shouldn-t/276699>\
**Category:** UX\
**Created:** [August 25, 2023, 10:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-closed-posts-to-a-topic-counts-as-a-reply-when-it-shouldn-t/276699 "2023-08-25T22:52:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![sidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sidt/32/322778_2.png) [@sidt](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sidt)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2023, 10:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-closed-posts-to-a-topic-counts-as-a-reply-when-it-shouldn-t/276699/1 "2023-08-25T22:52:24Z")

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This was on `Discourse 3.0.5`

The following message is counted as a reply, which is not right.

`"This topic was automatically closed 45 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed."`

It makes tracking replies to a topic difficult in topic listing page, where `"This topic has 1 reply"` could mean 1 actual reply from a user or there was no reply to the topic and it was automatically closed after topic expiry period.

Cheers!

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