# Horizon Theme: Incorrect Reply Count Display

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/horizon-theme-incorrect-reply-count-display/383830
**Category:** Bug
**Tags:** fixed, horizon-theme
**Created:** [September 24, 2025, 12:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/horizon-theme-incorrect-reply-count-display/383830 "2025-09-24T00:33:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![serkhelesheyi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/serkhelesheyi/32/497726_2.png) [@serkhelesheyi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/serkhelesheyi)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2025, 12:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/horizon-theme-incorrect-reply-count-display/383830/1 "2025-09-24T00:33:47Z")

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Hello,

I’ve discovered a bug when using the official **Horizon theme**. It seems to be incorrectly displaying the reply count for topics.

**The issue:** The number of replies shown for any given topic is consistently **one higher** than the actual number of replies. For example, if a topic has 5 replies, the theme displays “6 replies.” This is a persistent issue and can be reproduced on any topic when the Horizon theme is active.

Thank you for your hard work!

 ![Screenshot from 2025-09-24 03-52-52](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/e/d/4/ed442e5fa2052b0dbd1ce9bf24ff4d9de42aef87.png)

![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/optimized/4X/7/5/e/75e406fa13f717f0cab29c31a5da80b8061fe5a9_2_689x56.png)

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### Author: ![NateDhaliwal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/natedhaliwal/32/313494_2.png) [@NateDhaliwal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/NateDhaliwal)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2025, 12:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/horizon-theme-incorrect-reply-count-display/383830/2 "2025-09-24T00:37:25Z")

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If I’m not wrong, the ‘5’ refers to the number of posts _including the topic post_, but the ‘4’ refers to the actual number of replies.

If you look at the topic timeline:

 ![Screenshot_20250924_083622_Chrome](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/3/f/2/3f29d6760c0dbe9272f09a58c3c158082df75370.jpeg)

But perhaps the icon is a bit misleading 🤔.

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### Author: ![chapoi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/chapoi/32/537252_2.png) [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2025, 3:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/horizon-theme-incorrect-reply-count-display/383830/5 "2025-09-24T03:09:35Z")

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Thanks for the report, good catch! Pretty sure that wasn’t our intention and we’re just doing some special maths 😉

It will get fixed soon.

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### Author: ![chapoi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/chapoi/32/537252_2.png) [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2026, 10:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/horizon-theme-incorrect-reply-count-display/383830/7 "2026-02-16T10:54:18Z")

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Fixed in

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/37841](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/37841)

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### Author: ![chapoi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/chapoi/32/537252_2.png) [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2026, 10:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/horizon-theme-incorrect-reply-count-display/383830/8 "2026-02-19T10:54:52Z")

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