Suggestion for fixing the inaccurate link counter value

[Richie (Richie Rich)]

Further to what I thought was a bug but is seemingly by design, the topic link counter stops at 50:

Topic link counter stops at 50

Discourse 3.5.0.beta3-dev (afde7cc172). The link counter displayed at the bottom of a topic seems to stop at 50, even when there are over 1,000 links in the thread: [Screenshot 2025-03-29 at 09.38.20] For reference: [Screenshot 2025-03-29 at 09.45.27] On another topic, this one also says 50: [Screenshot 2025-03-29 at 09.46.07] When there are 250+ links: [Screenshot 2025-03-29 at 09.46.19] Does anyone know what might be causing this?

Even if there are thousands of links in the topic

And:

@Richie

I don’t know why we’d show a number to the end user which is completely inaccurate

No information is better than inaccurate information.

With this in mind, rather than showing an inaccurate number to the end user could we simply display a + symbol if there are more than 50 links in a topic?

For example, this:

Would simply become 50+ like so:

This way the user is not being told inaccurate information

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

@lindsey do you feel this is pr-welcome? Seems like a small and easy change (we would over select by 1 and then use that information to decide if we render 50 or 50+)

[lindsey (Lindsey Fogle)]

Agreed, added a pr-welcome to add the + for accuracy.

[Richie (Richie Rich)]

Thanks @lindsey

[Arkshine]

I gave it a try:

UX: Append '+' to link count if above threshold in topic map

[Richie (Richie Rich)]

Wow, that was quick!

Thanks @Arkshine