# 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:** [Junho 4, 2017, 5:16pm 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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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [Junho 4, 2017, 7:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/capping-number-of-replies-in-topics-whats-the-experience-in-your-community/63911/2 "2017-06-04T19:14:33Z")

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I tend to agree that extremely long mega topics start to be absurd. How do you search them? Who actually reads them? We have a 10,000 reply limit for performance reasons (it is a long story, but a list of all ID numbers in a topic is sent down to the client) but I am begining to think that default limit makes sense across the board even if we resolved the underlying performance issue.

It’s generally helpful to have _some_ sense of time scope in a topic title anyway, as previously discussed

> [@Is there a topic post limit?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-topic-post-limit/60955/3):
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> Usually a date range is helpful here in the topic title like NFL teams chat 2015 or Arsenal is the best! Nov 2015 or Gardening progress, Spring 2013 And of course you can use categories or tags (or just a common identical topic title minus dates) to tie them together.

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