# Why post\_number?

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**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [November 7, 2016, 7:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-post-number/52634 "2016-11-07T19:33:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2016, 10:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-post-number/52634/9 "2016-11-11T22:59:58Z")

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> [@Kevin\_Wildenradt](#):
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> why is it the identifier that replies depend on? Wouldn’t it be more consistent to make replies depend on post\_id, a much more fundamental identifier?

Yeah, this is a historic artefact we may get to cleaning it up at some point.

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