# Embedding, but don't automatically create a topic until a user chooses to comment

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/embedding-but-dont-automatically-create-a-topic-until-a-user-chooses-to-comment/61450
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** pr-welcome
**Created:** [23. September 2015 um 09:03 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/embedding-but-dont-automatically-create-a-topic-until-a-user-chooses-to-comment/61450 "2015-09-23T09:03:12Z")
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### Author: ![Heather\_Miller](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/43a26b/32.png) [@Heather\_Miller](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Heather_Miller)
#### Post date: [14. Juni 2017 um 15:00 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/embedding-but-dont-automatically-create-a-topic-until-a-user-chooses-to-comment/61450/30 "2017-06-14T15:00:00Z")

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For what it’s worth, we were plagued with this issue – flood of new topics when people visit our pages due to this behavior of embedded Discourse. It’s caused us lots of problems.

We made a bug report here:

> [@Flood of new topics from Embedded Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/flood-of-new-topics-from-embedded-discourse/64341):
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> We’re an open source software project with a lot of documentation pages. On each of our documentation pages, we decided to replace Disqus for commenting with (embedded) Discourse. After all, we already have a community of users using Discourse – the idea of merging the two places beginners ask questions seemed like a great idea. However, it seems that whenever someone reloads one of our documentation pages (without actually attempting to comment – they’re just visiting the pages…) a new Discour…

Our bug report was closed and redirected here. (For the record, this behavior seems to us like more of a bug than a feature.)

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