Moving a federated post into another topic
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wrote on 25 Feb 2025, 13:11 last edited by
@support@community.nodebb.org I'm trying to move a post from one topic to another. I haven't had problems with this and it works really well. There's one post I can't move and I wonder if it is because it is a federated post. The post is one out of several that are off-topic, so I want to move that whole side-discussion into its own topic. The only post I can't move is the federated post. What could be the reason?
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wrote on 25 Feb 2025, 15:37 last edited by
Does it just disallow the post move? Or does it do something wacky?
I ran into an interesting hiccup just now while experimenting with merging remote topics, where it allowed the merge, but the new merged post was totally broken (triggered a
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wrote on 25 Feb 2025, 19:09 last edited by
@kichae@community.nodebb.org I can click Move post and also select the post. I can navigate to the right topic and also type in the topic number. Bit then the Move button turns flat. Like I can't even click it or nothing happens when I click it.
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wrote on 25 Feb 2025, 20:09 last edited by
@malte@forum.fedi.dk Confirmed that the same thing's happening for me. Interestingly, forking remote topics works fine. So, moving posts from a remote topic into another topic isn't available, but moving them into a brand new topic is seemingly well supported.
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wrote on 25 Feb 2025, 20:22 last edited by
@Kichae @malte@forum.fedi.dk as you two have discovered, topic management tooling for remote topics is far less exhaustively tested
The move post functionality specifically I don't think has been tested at all, so:
https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/issues/13204
@Kichae said in Moving a federated post into another topic:
> merging remote topicsMerging two remote topics together? Or one remote and one local?
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wrote on 25 Feb 2025, 20:24 last edited by
@julian said in Moving a federated post into another topic:
> Merging two remote topics together? Or one remote and one local?IIRC, it was two remote topics, neither with replies. I was surprised that it let me to it, until it produced the error on viewing.
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wrote on 25 Feb 2025, 20:30 last edited by
@julian@community.nodebb.org sagde i Moving a federated post into another topic:
as you two have discovered, topic management tooling for remote topics is far less exhaustively tested
I'm happy to test things out and can see there's still a lot of bugs here and there. It's encouraging to see it getting worked on. That makes me want to continue exploring!
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wrote on 11 Mar 2025, 19:22 last edited by
@malte@forum.fedi.dk @Kichae I tested the following use cases:
- Moving a remote post to another topic (a local topic)
- Merging a remote topic with a local topic
- Merging a remote topic into a remote topic
All cases worked okay. Potentially this was fixed already with some other unrelated fixes?
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wrote on 11 Mar 2025, 19:34 last edited by
I'll try to look out for a new case and see if it works on my end too. Thanks!