I’m on free hosting & wanna create a feature where per forum topic, users including the topic creator can only put 1 post(/message) max What this looks like: Topic creator cannot reply. Under that topic, other users can only post once under that topic. So they can only reply to the creator, & once. …

Not quite what you want but how about slow mode as a workaround?: [image] Limit # topic posts / user / month Feature Like I said above, I can see the benefit of a category setting limiting the number of topics a user is allowed to post in a category in a given…

Ha. That’s a great idea, I’ll try it & see if it could work, I’ll get back to you & update here whether it does. Thank you

After playing around with it, yes, setting this at the category level doesn’t help as it disabled users from posting in other topics But this was better; setting it at a topic level, however… [Screenshot 2026-07-14 033940] This requires manually setting it on each & every topic. Can this be set …

Under a given forum topic, I want to set 1 post Max including any message & reply

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merefield (Robert) July 13, 2026, 7:05pm 2

Not quite what you want but how about slow mode as a workaround?:

Topic		Replies	Views
Limit one post per person? Feature	3	1278	February 10, 2018
Limit number of replies unless part of a specific group? Support	3	472	October 14, 2021
X Number of replies to a topic Feature	5	1189	October 30, 2016
Can I restrict users to reply at most once in the topics in a certain category? Support slow-mode	3	456	April 4, 2023
Limit number of posts per year Support	4	502	March 21, 2021

Under a given forum topic, I want to set 1 post Max including any message & reply

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