# Show topic-map without a reply
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-topic-map-without-a-reply/87447
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** topic-map
**Created:** [May 14, 2018, 4:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-topic-map-without-a-reply/87447 "2018-05-14T16:11:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@NemesisRE](https://meta.discourse.org/u/NemesisRE)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2018, 4:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-topic-map-without-a-reply/87447/1 "2018-05-14T16:11:36Z")
Is there a way to show the topic-map even if there is no reply? We are using many wiki threads and there are rarely replies but the statistics right in the thread would be nice anyway.
Thanks, in advance.
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### Author:  [@rdsubhas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rdsubhas)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2018, 3:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-topic-map-without-a-reply/87447/2 "2018-11-18T15:06:10Z")
+1. I was setting up a wiki-like site, and spent nearly a day breaking my head, unsuccessfully searching a lot of forum posts and trying to search in GitHub on whether the topic map was a separate widget or plugin that needs to be installed. Only after reading this post, I realized that a reply was all that was needed.
I’m not an UX expert, but turning it on by default for all posts would make it:
- Make those statistics available (there are more useful stats there beyond just the responses)
- Makes UX uniform throughout the site, no special behavior for topics with responses
- Avoid some discoverability issues (like my dumb case)
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### Author:  [@fharper](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fharper)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2019, 10:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-topic-map-without-a-reply/87447/3 "2019-01-10T22:53:24Z")
Is someone found a solution for this?
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### Author:  [@bombledmonk](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bombledmonk)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2020, 5:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-topic-map-without-a-reply/87447/4 "2020-10-05T05:05:34Z")
The hacky solution to this is to make a whisper post. That seems to make the topic-map appear.
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### Author:  [@Marius\_Ciepluch](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Marius_Ciepluch)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2021, 1:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-topic-map-without-a-reply/87447/5 "2021-04-29T13:19:13Z")
I just attempted to solve this by closing those posts, where this is missing. An option to always show the widget would certainly be better.
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### Author:  [@amotl](https://meta.discourse.org/u/amotl)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2021, 5:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-topic-map-without-a-reply/87447/6 "2021-07-19T17:57:38Z")
Hi there,
I also would like to explictly and humbly signal a strong interest in seeing topic-maps even on the bottom of single-topic posts, i.e. topics without any (regular) replies.
Can we make this feature request resonate with you in any way?
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### Author:  [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2021, 2:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-topic-map-without-a-reply/87447/7 "2021-07-20T02:30:37Z")
Is the view count what most people are after? On a topic with a single post all the other stats are visible within the post itself.
Lots of useless info here:
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### Author:  [@amotl](https://meta.discourse.org/u/amotl)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2021, 10:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-topic-map-without-a-reply/87447/8 "2021-08-06T10:24:37Z")
Hi Kris,
> [@awesomerobot](#):
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> Is the view count what most people are after?
Yes, exactly.
> [@awesomerobot](#):
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> Lots of useless info here:
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> 
When looking at this again in this scenario, you are right! It is probably the view count only that we miss very much.
Background: On our forums at [https://community.hiveeyes.org/](https://community.hiveeyes.org/) and [https://community.panodata.org/](https://community.panodata.org/), we have a few pages having only a single post (often Wiki pages with DiscoTOC), which are apparently quite popular. On them, we would like to be able to see the number of total visitors in order to know about their popularities in a more quantified detail.
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### Author:  [@rahim123](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rahim123)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2023, 11:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-topic-map-without-a-reply/87447/9 "2023-03-19T23:02:07Z")
> [@awesomerobot](#):
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> Is the view count what most people are after?
Yes, I’ve also had user requests to see the view count on topics with 0 replies.
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2023, 8:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-topic-map-without-a-reply/87447/10 "2023-11-21T08:42:00Z")
There’s some useful info in this post that would help with this:
> [@How to show topic-map on non-commented posts?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-show-topic-map-on-non-commented-posts/204222/15):
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> Hello, Now that I saw this topic, I remembered that I had seen [a commit about this](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/19302) before. slightly_smiling_face I think this should work now arrow_down_small Header \