# Why are topic counts sometimes different?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-are-topic-counts-sometimes-different/312075
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [June 14, 2024, 10:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-are-topic-counts-sometimes-different/312075 "2024-06-14T10:04:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Zard\_W](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Zard_W)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2024, 10:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-are-topic-counts-sometimes-different/312075/1 "2024-06-14T10:04:47Z")
Why some topics become private, but we can see it in homepage, and [topic Created] of user are not counted?
Look forward your reply!
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### Author:  [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2024, 2:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-are-topic-counts-sometimes-different/312075/2 "2024-06-17T02:26:27Z")
“Private” topics are personal messages so we don’t display the count publicly by design.
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### Author:  [@Zard\_W](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Zard_W)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2024, 3:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-are-topic-counts-sometimes-different/312075/3 "2024-06-17T03:27:41Z")
But he just publish a topic, why does it belong to Private?
we can choose it?
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### Author:  [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2024, 3:48am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-are-topic-counts-sometimes-different/312075/4 "2024-06-17T03:48:15Z")
Are you saying that you can see the topic publicly?
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### Author:  [@Zard\_W](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Zard_W)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2024, 3:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-are-topic-counts-sometimes-different/312075/5 "2024-06-17T03:59:43Z")
Yes, everyone can see it.
But I checked it again, Created topic is 1, Private topic is 2, and I gave him admin role just now. I don’t know if it will have an impact.
```plaintext
{
"id": 153,
"title": "",
"fancy_title": "",
"slug": "",
"posts_count": 1,
"reply_count": 0,
"highest_post_number": 1,
"image_url": "",
"created_at": "2024-06-14T08:43:58.201Z",
"last_posted_at": "2024-06-14T08:43:58.238Z",
"bumped": true,
"bumped_at": "2024-06-14T23:31:21.942Z",
"archetype": "regular",
"unseen": false,
"last_read_post_number": 1,
"unread": 0,
"new_posts": 0,
"unread_posts": 0,
"pinned": false,
"unpinned": null,
"excerpt": "",
"visible": true,
"closed": false,
"archived": false,
"notification_level": 1,
"bookmarked": false,
"liked": false,
"thumbnails": [],
"tags": [
""
],
"tags_descriptions": {},
"views": 144,
"like_count": 3,
"has_summary": false,
"last_poster_username": "harry",
"category_id": 78,
"pinned_globally": false,
"featured_link": null,
"has_accepted_answer": false,
"is_ticket": false,
"can_vote": false,
"posters": []
},
```
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### Author:  [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2024, 5:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-are-topic-counts-sometimes-different/312075/6 "2024-06-17T05:20:26Z")
Those two personal messages are probably the default welcome message and the message that they were granted admin.
The user stats you shared in your first post aren’t updated immediately. Maybe the public topic that was posted wasn’t included at that time.
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### Author:  [@Zard\_W](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Zard_W)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2024, 6:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-are-topic-counts-sometimes-different/312075/7 "2024-06-17T06:13:20Z")
Thanks for your explanation.