The issue was resolved for quite a while, but has resurfaced. It’s affecting one topic so far, that I know of, the JSON response from latest.json shows the following for the affected topic:
{
"id": 65108,
"title": "WaniKani has officially stopped clicking my POLLs",
"fancy_title": "WaniKani has officially stopped clicking my POLLs",
"slug": "wanikani-has-officially-stopped-clicking-my-polls",
"posts_count": 1867,
"reply_count": 1577,
"highest_post_number": 1868,
"image_url": "https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/optimized/4X/1/7/f/17f7e88c4ebd69e1b8ea76b74625f8f8a17447ae_2_1024x482.jpeg",
"created_at": "2024-03-02T23:27:05.198Z",
"last_posted_at": "2024-03-11T06:12:55.262Z",
"bumped": true,
"bumped_at": "2024-03-11T06:12:55.262Z",
"archetype": "regular",
"unseen": false,
"last_read_post_number": 4271,
"unread": 0,
"new_posts": 0,
"unread_posts": 0,
"pinned": false,
"unpinned": null,
"visible": true,
"closed": false,
"archived": false,
"notification_level": 2,
"bookmarked": false,
"liked": true,
"tags_descriptions": {
},
"views": 547,
"like_count": 4970,
"has_summary": true,
"last_poster_username": "shuly",
"category_id": 9,
"pinned_globally": false,
"featured_link": null,
"has_accepted_answer": false,
"can_vote": false,
"posters": [
{
"extras": null,
"description": "Original Poster",
"user_id": 78576,
"primary_group_id": 174,
"flair_group_id": 174
},
{
"extras": null,
"description": "Frequent Poster",
"user_id": 151896,
"primary_group_id": 118,
"flair_group_id": 118
},
{
"extras": null,
"description": "Frequent Poster",
"user_id": 13491,
"primary_group_id": 214,
"flair_group_id": 214
},
{
"extras": null,
"description": "Frequent Poster",
"user_id": 69207,
"primary_group_id": 171,
"flair_group_id": 171
},
{
"extras": "latest",
"description": "Most Recent Poster",
"user_id": 51836,
"primary_group_id": 204,
"flair_group_id": null
}
]
}
I gathered that the last time this happened, it was because the count would be off when a lot of replies to a post were deleted or moved, but since this is a relatively new topic I don’t think that’s the case here.
Incidentally, the issue seemed to resolve itself last time as I unignored the user I had ignored, and has now resurfaced very shortly after I ignored a user. It might be a coincidence, but I have a feeling ignoring users and post counts not matching up are connected somehow. Also interestingly, the user in question does not have any activity in the affected thread.