# Topic Author

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-author/111021
**Category:** Theme component
**Tags:** end-of-life, topic-author
**Created:** [March 8, 2019, 5:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-author/111021 "2019-03-08T17:08:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 1
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### Author: ![GokulNC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/gokulnc/32/182419_2.png) [@GokulNC](https://meta.discourse.org/u/GokulNC)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2020, 9:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-author/111021/23 "2020-03-08T09:52:52Z")

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There seems to be an unexpected bug when used with [`Who's Online` plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/whos-online-plugin-discourse-whos-online/52345).  
That is, if the last post’s author of a topic is online, it’s showing as if the topic’s author itself is online on the `/latest` and `Categories & Latest Topic` pages.

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