Originally Posted by
Cholula
I'd heard a while back that Post Counts are updated real-time as jackal and others have mentioned but it's View Counts for a thread that are batch-processed every so many minutes or hours.
That was/is my understanding (or misunderstanding

) of FT technology as well.
FWIW, from my personal experiences, my post count has always been in real time.
Originally Posted by
IB-Dick
Posts counts aren't updated in real time. There is a process that runs through as a batch process and updates them.