You’d need to reach “Basic” user level. And I assume the creators of the forum software thought it easy enough to reach this so that they call user level “Zero” “new”, even though time doesn’t really matter, just the level of activity.
Doesnt help that i only have 1 device which i work with with doesnt even have official /e/ support! So i have like no options for " * Entering at least 5 topics" and it allowed be before to have multiple replies
Now that you know the threshold, you have the option of just entering some more topics without being interested in them .
If the forum software doesn’t react right away, have some patience. Some things could be run in periodical intervals, not immediately, I don’t know whether user level ups are one of them here. But you’ll see.