diff --git a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/gxschannels/GxsChannelPostsModel.cpp b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/gxschannels/GxsChannelPostsModel.cpp
index 508db7046..865cd776b 100644
--- a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/gxschannels/GxsChannelPostsModel.cpp
+++ b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/gxschannels/GxsChannelPostsModel.cpp
@@ -498,7 +498,14 @@ void RsGxsChannelPostsModel::updateSinglePost(const RsGxsChannelPost& post,std::
             added_files.insert(post.mFiles.begin(),post.mFiles.end());
             removed_files.insert(mPosts[j].mFiles.begin(),mPosts[j].mFiles.end());
 
+            auto save_ucc = mPosts[j].mUnreadCommentCount;
+            auto save_cc  = mPosts[j].mCommentCount;
+
             mPosts[j] = post;
+
+            mPosts[j].mUnreadCommentCount = save_ucc;
+            mPosts[j].mCommentCount = save_cc;
+
 #ifdef DEBUG_CHANNEL_MODEL
             RsDbg() << "  post is an updated existing post." ;
 #endif
@@ -512,7 +519,13 @@ void RsGxsChannelPostsModel::updateSinglePost(const RsGxsChannelPost& post,std::
             removed_files.insert(mPosts[j].mFiles.begin(),mPosts[j].mFiles.end());
 
             auto old_post_id = mPosts[j].mMeta.mMsgId;
+            auto save_ucc = mPosts[j].mUnreadCommentCount;
+            auto save_cc  = mPosts[j].mCommentCount;
+
             mPosts[j] = post;
+
+            mPosts[j].mCommentCount += save_cc;
+            mPosts[j].mUnreadCommentCount += save_ucc;
             mPosts[j].mOlderVersions.insert(old_post_id);
 #ifdef DEBUG_CHANNEL_MODEL
             RsDbg() << "  post is an new version of an existing post." ;
diff --git a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/gxschannels/GxsChannelPostsWidgetWithModel.cpp b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/gxschannels/GxsChannelPostsWidgetWithModel.cpp
index ed721a66a..e63b96633 100644
--- a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/gxschannels/GxsChannelPostsWidgetWithModel.cpp
+++ b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/gxschannels/GxsChannelPostsWidgetWithModel.cpp
@@ -805,7 +805,6 @@ void GxsChannelPostsWidgetWithModel::handleEvent_main_thread(std::shared_ptr<con
                         return;
                     }
 
-#ifdef TO_REMOVE
                     // Need to call this in order to get the actual comment count. The previous call only retrieves the message, since we supplied the message ID.
                     // another way to go would be to save the comment ids of the existing message and re-insert them before calling getChannelContent.
 
@@ -818,7 +817,6 @@ void GxsChannelPostsWidgetWithModel::handleEvent_main_thread(std::shared_ptr<con
                     // Normally, there's a single post in the "post" array. The function below takes a full array of posts however.
 
                     RsGxsChannelPostsModel::computeCommentCounts(posts,comments);
-#endif
 
                     // 2 - update the model in the UI thread.