Differential post numbers on profile thumbnail

#1 · 30-12-2022 10:17AM #1

Hiya,

Not greatly technologically minded, and not sure where to ask this trivial and slightly technical question - that has probably been already asked multiple times in different areas (or maybe not coz it's obvious). So hopefully this is the right place:

Why are there two numbers of posts - one at the top and one at the bottom - of everyone's profile thumbnail? (or whatever it's called) :

Beasty · 30-12-2022 11:17AM

I don't think it has been asked before

I think though it is down to how this platform differentiates between "discussions" = threads started, and "comments" = replies to thread started. On the old platform everything was considered "posts"

Hence you will see your postcount below the username has increased by 1 to 1669, whereas the other postcount has remained at 1663 when you started this thread

EDIT - ant my reply here added one to each in my own postcounts

cdgalwegian · 30-12-2022 12:02PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120046094#Comment_120046094

So the difference relates to the number of threads started; the top number is total posts including threads started, the bottom is response comments only, so the difference is the number of threads started. Would that be right? The numbers work out in relation to my account anyway.

cdgalwegian · 30-12-2022 12:26PM

Just had a look there, and it seems the number changes confirm your hypothesis.

Thanks Beasty.

ohnonotgmail · 05-01-2023 02:31PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120046248#Comment_120046248

That is exactly what it is. this came up not long after the move to Vanilla.

Differential post numbers on profile thumbnail

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