Most Posts on a Topic Record?

[FinIce (Ina)]

Discussion came up on another forum over if it had the topic with the most posts (currently sitting at 51,774 and still active), and I haven’t found anything to the contrary.

I found this one about user base, but none of those forums seemed to have one bigger. WOW got to 21k, but that was the best I saw.

I also asked Gemini, but the three it gave me (EVE, WaniKani, and Choice of Games), also didn’t have one singular topic that is still the same at such a size.

Thanks for any help on this, certainly very pressing, matter!

[Moin]

By default, Discourse closes topics after 10,000 posts because megatopics can cause performance issues.

The MEGATOPIC: public good, or public menace?

When we founded Discourse in 2013, I had the idea that we’d support topics of any length or size, from 10 replies to 100 to 10,000 to 100,000 or even more! [image] A few years ago we ran into a technical limitation where we send down a list of all the post IDs in the topic when you enter the topic. This starts to cause problems on the client – particularly older smartphones with less memory and CPU power – at around ~10,000 replies, so we created a site setting that automatically closes topic…

[FinIce (Ina)]

I saw the post limit before.

I like this post on the one you shared:

The MEGATOPIC: public good, or public menace?

The SitePoint vBulletin forums had a few “mega threads”. But they were not what I’d call discussions. A few were “game” threads which were more post-to-post where there was no presumption that anyone would read every post from first to last. And there was a catch-all Introductions intended to consolidate multiple “Hi, I’m new here” threads. There were also some “opinion” threads which were little more than a series of “I like __ best” with a sprinkling of substance here and there. I guess wheth…

The forum I am referring to is Chief Delphi, a forum for FIRST robotics. It transitioned to Discourse in 2019. The thread I am referring to I think was actually closed before the transition, but in any regard, wasn’t particularly close to 10k before it.

As I understand, the limit can be switched off too, so still wondering if anything exceeds that 51k. A lot of larger topics it seems like have been split retroactively or automatically by the plugin mentioned in your topic, so I don’t really count those, since there are a few ones like that on Chief Delphi.

I should clarify, I’m not the admin or a mod of the forum, just someone asking around for info.