# Editing a post should make the grey unread count appear in the topic list

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/editing-a-post-should-make-the-grey-unread-count-appear-in-the-topic-list/17418
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [10 juli 2014 om 08:30 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/editing-a-post-should-make-the-grey-unread-count-appear-in-the-topic-list/17418 "2014-07-10T08:30:00Z")
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### Author: ![mcwumbly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mcwumbly/32/103861_2.png) [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [25 september 2014 om 18:00 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/editing-a-post-should-make-the-grey-unread-count-appear-in-the-topic-list/17418/10 "2014-09-25T18:00:16Z")

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I’ve been doing something on our forums which allows for an interesting workaround.

We have certain topics dedicated to software downloads. When a new version is available we do the following:

1. edit the download topic, adding a link to the new release
2. add a post to a related ‘release notes’ topic with the changes included in that version
3. visit other specific bug/feature topics, and close them with a link to the release notes post for that version

In order to make the download topic bubble to the top on edits, I did the following:

- closed the topic so the only post is the OP
- deleted the automatic ‘this topic is closed’ post

So now, the first post _is_ the last post, and it benefits from the special behavior where topics are bumped when the last post is edited.

A similar thing could be done for Wiki topics. Discussion about the wiki post could be held in a related topic. If the wiki topic is closed and that automatic message is deleted, then edits to the wiki topic should let it bubble up.

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