In our newly setup install of Discourse, this getting started banner is showing without the details updating.
We have actually got 32 topics and 90 posts at the time I took this screenshot.
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The “Getting started” banner in a private Discourse forum is not updating with the correct topic and post counts. stephenz reported the issue with 32 topics and 90 posts, but the banner still shows low counts. Falco asked if all topics are in public categories, and stephenz clarified that the forum is private, with membership requirements for categories. Stephen explained that the banner refers to public topics, which don’t apply to private forums, and suggested disabling the “show create topics notice” setting to remove the notification. codinghorror agreed that the feature should be improved for private instances, tagging @techAPJ to add it to the long-term list.
Are those all in public categories?
Our forum is running in private mode, but assuming that’s not what you mean by public. How is public determined?
Our categories all have membership requirements on them, we’re not using the default uncategorised category. Most members are a member of the group which allows them to see most of the categories though.
Then no, that refers to public topics - they’re recommendations to start communities, if you’re running as a private forum your model is different.
Go into /admin and search for the setting called show create topics notice- you can disable it to remove the notification.
we should improve this somehow for private-only instances. Can you add to your long term list @techAPJ