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Alfi seeks clarification on whether a topic is counted as a post in Discourse’s Admin Report, aiming to create an annual report for their travel forum. They have approximately 2,000 topics and 20,000 posts and want to know if the total publications are 20,000 or 22,000. Canapin responds that a topic’s first post is likely counted as a post, confirming the convention that a topic is a collection of posts with a shared subject. Alfi acknowledges this logic but seeks further confirmation to ensure accurate counting.

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Hi,

After one year of running our self-hosted travel forum on Discourse, I would like to create an annual report based on the main parameters taken from the Admin Report facility.

During the year, the reports show approximately 2,000 topics and around 20,000 posts.

Question:

Is a topic automatically counted as a post? In our case, that would be 20,000 publications.
or
do I have to count the number of topics plus the number of posts to get the total number of publications, i.e. 20,000 + 2,000 = 22,000?

Thanks for the clarification.

ALF

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By topic I assume “first post”. I didn’t verify how stats are calculated but I’m 99% sure the answer is “yes”.

Note that naming conventions on Discourse define a “topic” as a collection of posts under the same subject/title.
The first post of a topic is simply named “first post”. Hence the search filter in:first or the shorthand f.

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Would be logical, I just want to be sure what I’m counting …