It’s not exactly typical for new users to bombard a community they’ve only just joined with lots of posts within the first 24 hours. It’s a pretty handy safeguard in the event of manual spam so have such a limit in place.
Your assertion that this relates to bootstrap mode is inaccurate, the same limitation would apply if I invite a user and promote them to TL1 manually in their first day.
Yeah, I have known,
I mean I think Discourse “should” have 24hr TL0 and shouldn’t have “first day” limits for simplicity.
If you fear lots of posts, you don’t need to promote them to TL1, do you?
The difference between TL0 and TL1 is more than the number of topics and replies.
TL0 users can’t send Private Messages, flag posts, post more than a single image or any attachments. They’re limited to 2 links in a post and can’t put URLs in their “about me”.
Bootstrap mode is there for new communities, having these things at the point of registration is useful and helps encourage engagement to create that initial momentum.
In normal operation TL0 and TL1 work fine, getting to TL1 doesn’t take long at all.
Bootstrap mode is a slight relaxation on access to TL1 with two TL0 limitations which only apply in the first 24 hours. If makes for a really neat backstop so that bootstrap mode isn’t abused. How does another trust level help here? If you dislike those limits you can alter the numbers via /admin.
If many users were to express similar confusion such a change might be made. It’s worked this way for several years and you seem to be the first to have this problem.
