Change to inactive topic expiry

[fiddlingfrog]

@codinghorror

For reference this issue has never come up, not even once, in the entire history of Discourse.

No, it has come up. It happened to me several times after the switch to Discourse, which is why I started to look into the issue and why I brought it up several years ago.

@fiddlingfrog

Yeah, it’s not really judgement, it’s actual experience. In the nearly two months since the switch to Discourse, I have lost track of a few conversations because they split. Most of those were from moderators splitting a topic, but at least one was from someone experimenting with the reply as new topic option.*

It is has continued to happen with enough regularity in the last three years that I still think it’s worth addressing.

Edit:

@codinghorror

I could see making the case that the topic creator and the post owner should both be notified when someone replies as a linked topic. But every single person who watches that topic? That’d get spammy as hell right quick in a hurry.

Maybe not a notification then? How about bumping the original locked thread so that it shows up at the top of a user’s Unread page?