Category topic count incorrectly displaying number of posts

[agitated.swanson]

Hi everyone,

I’m having a problem where on the main page of my Discourse instance, the categories are displayed with the number of topics. However, after permanently deleting a post, the number still does not go down - is there a way to resolve this? The number of posts is 5 even though there are 3 topics open and 2 have been permanently deleted.

Thanks!

[ondrej]

Are you referring to this?

Number on the side of categories showing number of topics made in the past week isn't correct

Hello! I noticed an odd thing on a forum I am a TL3 recently. In a private category I can see, the number shows that 13 topics were created in the past week. [image] Do note I deleted the category name/info so I don’t leak anything I shouldn’t as it’s a private category. The names are the only thing I changed in the Chrome inspect tool. When I opened this category, however, there are only 2 topics created in the last month. “Pinned Topic” and “Topic #3” were not created in the last month, b…

[agitated.swanson]

Hi ondrej,

No - I’m referring to normal lifetime category topic posts, not weekly posts.

Thanks.

[JammyDodger]

I think there’s a daily background job that would adjust those. How long has it been?

[agitated.swanson]

Hi JammyDodger,

It’s been 3 hours - is there a way to manually run this background job?

Thanks!

[JammyDodger]

If you have access to your /sidekiq/scheduler page, you can manually trigger jobs::EnsureDbConsistency. Hopefully that kicks it back into line.

[agitated.swanson]

Thanks - that worked!