# Most Posts on a Topic Record?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/most-posts-on-a-topic-record/407648
**Category:** General
**Created:** [July 14, 2026, 10:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/most-posts-on-a-topic-record/407648 "2026-07-14T22:42:14Z")
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### Author: ![Moin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/moin/32/554653_2.png) [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2026, 10:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/most-posts-on-a-topic-record/407648/2 "2026-07-14T22:56:15Z")

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

> [@The MEGATOPIC: public good, or public menace?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-megatopic-public-good-or-public-menace/85592):
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> 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! 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…

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