Move posts to different topic

[GunChleoc]

I would like to be able to move topics from one forum for the next. For example, this topic here:

https://wl.widelands.org/forum/topic/4495/

is in German, so it should be moved to the German forum.

The icing on the cake would be if we could leave a temporary redirect in the old forum, so we won't have to notify the author manually.

And double gold star for shifting posts from topic A to topic B, but that's probably a lot ore work.

[kaputtnik (franku)]

You can move a topic already:

- go the admin page for pybb->topics
- choose the topic you want to change
- choose the forum you want to move the topic to (see attachment)
- save

I think we don't need a redirect in the old forum, because links are mainly created from the post id. We also do not have any references to a forums name, if i remember right.

Moving one post from topic A to topic B is another issue though. I have to think about it.

If you agree about not having a redirect, i would change this bug containing only the post move.

[GunChleoc (gunchleoc)]

The redirect would be for humans, not for the software. This would save us from having to PM topic participants about the move.

[kaputtnik (franku)]

> This would save us from having to PM topic participants about the move.

I don't understand why this is needed :-S I think normally if a person is interested in a topic he subscribes it. We also have the latest posts list. Also the search (ok, currently not working).

Maybe it depends how people do search for a specific topic. I never use the forums list... some times i guess the forum, but mainly i do not find the topic i am searching for, because the topic isn't in the forum where i thought it could belong to :-D

How do you find a specific topic? Do you remember the forum of a specific topic?

[GunChleoc (gunchleoc)]

It depends. I sometimes only look at specific forums.

Another way to solve this problem would be to show a user's posts in their profile, but that would also be an entirely new feature.

[kaputtnik (franku)]

> Another way to solve this problem would be to show a user's posts in their profile,

I wanted to implement this for a long time. Currently we have only the number of posts there... i want to change the number into a link to a view containing all posts of this user. This is easy to implement...

[GunChleoc (gunchleoc)]

Let's prioritize that then - I want this a lot more than the temporary redirect.

[kaputtnik (franku)]

Do you want the same ordering as we have for the 'More latest posts' view? Currently it is ordered by date.

[GunChleoc (gunchleoc)]

I think ordering by date is fine.

[kaputtnik (franku)]

Can we change the bugs title and description to 'move posts ...' now?

[GunChleoc (gunchleoc)]

Issue moved to https://github.com/widelands/widelands-website/issues/218