# Ok, ten thousand posts might be a problem

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**Created:** [June 22, 2020, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-ten-thousand-posts-might-be-a-problem/911072 "2020-06-22T03:11:19Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 27, 2020, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-ten-thousand-posts-might-be-a-problem/911072/21 "2020-06-27T08:15:13Z")

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> [@wolfpup](#):
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> I have a terrible feeling that the `auto_close_topics_post_count` setting (or whatever it might be called) may just be a way for admins to set a lower bound on the number of posts per thread, but that 10,000 might be a maximum hardcoded into the Discourse software. Any further word on this? Not a showstopper, but yet another annoying problem. As I said earlier, we don’t have many threads that exceed this limit, but the ones that do are obviously popular threads that have existed for a long time.

[Here is the deal:](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-megatopic-public-good-or-public-menace/85592/16)

> Allowing megatopics in our multisite cluster causes performance problems so we just restricted this. Note, we do plan to change it so you can increase the PM limit up to 10k.

> If you are _self-hosted_ you are free to change these settings as much as you wish. On [discourse.org](http://discourse.org) hosting we’ve enforced the 10,000 post count setting globally (as Sam mentioned above), so that cannot be changed.

I.e., the hosting package enforces a 10000-post limit, so it does not matter that @TubaDiva changed the setting (I was kind of wondering why that seemed to have no effect). The [discourse.org](http://discourse.org) position is that it places an unacceptable load on their servers (and also that the limit is a feature, not a problem, but my response to that would be that the way I run my forum is none of their business either way; no point in arguing with them about it). How much load I am allowed to put on their cluster is very much mutual business, however.

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