# Capping number of replies in topics, whats the experience in your community?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/capping-number-of-replies-in-topics-whats-the-experience-in-your-community/63911
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [2017 年6 月 4 日 17:16 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/capping-number-of-replies-in-topics-whats-the-experience-in-your-community/63911 "2017-06-04T17:16:44Z")
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### 作者： ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### 发布日期： [2018 年10 月 21 日 06:23 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/capping-number-of-replies-in-topics-whats-the-experience-in-your-community/63911/10 "2018-10-21T06:23:05Z")

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> [@The MEGATOPIC: public good, or public menace?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-megatopic-public-good-or-public-menace/85592):
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> When we founded Discourse in 2013, I had the idea that we’d support topics of any length or size, from 10 replies to 100 to 10,000 to 100,000 or even more! A few years ago we ran into a technical limitation where we send down a list of all the post IDs in the topic when you enter the topic. This starts to cause problems on the client – particularly older smartphones with less memory and CPU power – at around ~10,000 replies, so we created a site setting that automatically closes topic…

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