curi
August 6, 2022, 5:19am
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I’ve noticed multiple times that a recent and frequent poster in a topic doesn’t show up in the 5 icons on the latest page. Example :
The middle 3 icons there say “frequent poster” if I hover my mouse (the left is the original poster and right is most recent poster). It’s showing people with 1-2 posts over a guy with 20 posts who is also currently the second-most-recent poster:
How is it picking who to show if not by frequency and/or recency of posts?
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I think the query is in
Though I am not 100% sure how to decipher it.
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Moin
July 24, 2026, 3:22pm
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A PR with a fix for this has been created a while ago.
main ← curi:fix-topic-featured-posters
merged 08:10PM - 24 Jul 26 UTC
There was a bug where the frequent posters were reordered by the date of their m… ost recent post in the topic, with older posts preferred. This hid posters who should have been displayed (e.g. someone with the most posts and the second most recent post). This PR fixes the bug and improves the selection with better visibility for recent discussion and new participants.
Bug report showing the issue with screenshots: https://meta.discourse.org/t/frequent-posters-shown-on-latest-page/235281
New display logic: The topic list shows up to five posters in this order: the OP, two frequent posters, and two recent posters. Recent posters are excluded from frequent posters, and the OP is excluded from both. The latest poster is handled separately and replaces a recent poster unless the OP is the latest poster.
It’s been marked as stale today, so I thought I’d share it here for some attention.
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curi
July 24, 2026, 6:36pm
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Thanks. I’m OP of this topic and the PR author. The glitch has been annoying me for years. Not sure if there’s something more I’m supposed to do after submitting the PR to get attention for it.
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Posting the PR here helps! I’m taking a look now
Merged! thanks.
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