Does the ‘Posted’ field in the user card include topics in privare categories? For example, (redacted) user has not posted for the past 4 years (activity > all), but it says their last post was 2 days ago.

[image] Nate Dhaliwal: Does the ‘Posted’ field in the user card include topics in privare categories? yes it does. Most of the posted counts for Team who post on Meta will be like this. I can assure you mine that you see for public Meta isn’t accurate either. Some Team members don’t post …

Thanks! I get it now. Just another quick question, will it apply for me as well if I were to send a PM to a user?

https://ask.discourse.com/discourse-ai/ai-bot/shared-ai-conversations/kRq92rFGZ2asE8px2NF47w

I was hoping for a better onebox, but I don’t think it will onebox from ask. Here is Lola settings bot with a quick reply Discourse Post Count: Public and Private Explained Lilly: Does a user’s public profile post count include private category posts and personal messages? settings_explo…

Perhaps I am not being clear, I meant the one that shows when the user last posted. Looks like AI answered it: ▶ Does 'Last Posted' Include Private Messages? AI

You could also try it. Send a message to yourself and check your usercard.

[image] Nate Dhaliwal: Perhaps I am not being clear, [image] Nate Dhaliwal: Does the ‘Posted’ field nah you’re being clear enough. I’m being dense :woman_facepalming:t2: :laughing:

Doesn’t seem to work. I just sent myself a PM, replied to it, but it does not say that on my user card (unless it takes time to update, but I’ve already refreshed the page).

it works, its just that pms don’t count as posts. :smiley:

The bot said they do [image] Nate Dhaliwal: The “last posted” field on the Discourse user card does include private messages.

Does the 'Posted' field in the user card include topics in private categories?

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Lilly September 28, 2024, 4:59am 12

it works, its just that pms don’t count as posts.

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