Why are topic counts sometimes different?

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The discussion Why are topic counts sometimes different? revolves around the discrepancy in topic counts. Zard_W initiated the conversation, questioning why some topics are not counted despite being visible on the homepage. HAWK explained that “private” topics are personal messages and are not displayed publicly by design. However, Zard_W pointed out that a specific topic was published and visible to everyone, yet its count was not updated. Moin suggested that the discrepancy might be due to the default welcome message and the admin grant message, which are personal messages, and that the user stats might not be updated immediately. Zard_W thanked Moin for the explanation.

1

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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2

“Private” topics are personal messages so we don’t display the count publicly by design.

3

But he just publish a topic, why does it belong to Private?
we can choose it?

4

Are you saying that you can see the topic publicly?

5

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.

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  "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,
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  "excerpt": "",
  "visible": true,
  "closed": false,
  "archived": false,
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  "liked": false,
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  "like_count": 3,
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  "last_poster_username": "harry",
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6

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.

7

Thanks for your explanation.