Configuring Auto-Bumping for Topics

[maiki]

In Discourse you can setup “auto-bumping” for topics. This is configured at the category level, as it may be more appropriate in some than others.

To edit a category setting visit it on your site and click the button:

Then visit the “Settings” tab. Auto-bumping has two settings available:

• “Number of open topics to automatically bump daily” – this many topics will be bumped in that category each day
• “Minimum days before bumping the same topic again” – a topic will not be bumped again for this many days

Using the settings above, your topics will be auto-bumped along the following criteria:

@sam

IF there exists an non-closed, visible, non-archived, non category description and non-pinned topic that was bumped less than 24 hours ago.

We will look for N oldest bumped topic and bump it to the front page. The process will bump a maximum of 1 topic every 15 minutes and it is rate limited so we only do N per day. (you set N)

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Auto-bumping topics is useful for a variety of use-cases; how have you used auto-bumping in your community?

[kuba-orlik]

Is it normal that a closed topic got bumped on my Discourse instance?

[Canapin (Coin-coin le Canapin)]

Hi!
What are your auto bump category settings?

[kuba-orlik]

Number of open topics to automatically bump daily: 0

Minimum days before bumping the same topic again: 1

[maiki]

Nope!

Those settings in the category should not bump the topic. It’s possible a topic auto-timer was set to bump it, I think…

Let us know if it happens again. I’m not sure how to reproduce it. You might ask the other participants in the conversation if anyone bumped it.