Editing a post pushes it to the top?

Whenever I edit something on my original post, for example the very first - and maybe the only - message, does that make the post go up on the feed, similar to a “bump”? Or only when I actually add a new reply?

If edits don’t push it to the top, I remember seeing that there’s the bump feature. Is that a way to push it back to the top of the feed? If so, as an admin, do I have unlimited bumps or is it hardcoded into Discourse where each person can only have N bumps per day/month, regardless of their level?

I had to uninstall Discourse a few months ago, but I will install it again sometime next year (wanna plan as much as possible before starting to spend money again for no reason), so at the moment I can’t test what I’m asking here.

Topics used to be bumped when the last post was edited. This was changed in September.

I think now topics are only bumped when someone replies or when the first post is a wiki and is edited.

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Thank you for clarifying and for letting me know about the September change.

What about the bump feature? Can I use that to push it to the top? Is there a limit as an admin?

There’s not really a “bump feature” like something you can just click. For normal non-wiki topics, bumping happens naturally when someone replies, and there’s Configuring auto-bumping for topics on a per-category basis.

A way to do it manually is by changing the timestamp as described here – although re-dating topics could cause confusion.

(You may also notice the Reset Bump Date option on the topic wrench menu. This basically un-bumps a topic if you don’t want a reply to move it up on the topic list.)

FWIW You can also do it on a per topic basis using the auto-bump topic timer: