diff --git a/app/assets/stylesheets/common/topic-timeline.scss b/app/assets/stylesheets/common/topic-timeline.scss
index dcf6afb5236..ea13ee5bc38 100644
--- a/app/assets/stylesheets/common/topic-timeline.scss
+++ b/app/assets/stylesheets/common/topic-timeline.scss
@@ -259,6 +259,7 @@
       overflow: hidden;
       padding-left: 1em;
       position: absolute; // prevents text length from impacting width
+      max-height: 3em; // this hides the date when the count + date would wrap to more than 2 lines
     }
 
     .timeline-ago {