Okay, so you can change usernames without being cut off from your post history. I just did it for myself, because I also don’t want an underscore in my username. So, Wholly or anyone else stuck with an underscore, PM me if you want me to perform an underscorectomy.
We’ve got some giant, old threads with a gazillion posts that people still add to regularly. I just posted to the Ascension league thread, for example, and it was automatically closed because it has 10000+ posts. Is this a limitation we need to live with, or can these elder threads be allowed to continue?
Part of the migration should have been those threads being imported. They should absolutely NOT be closed. I’m trying to use the admin “open thread” command but it doesn’t seem to be taking. @wumpus, can you tell what’s going on there? We need those threads to be active.
I appreciate the effort, @tomchick . Unfortunately it didn’t work, because I’m still getting an error when I try to add a new post to that Ascension League thread. When I try to post it pops up a message saying that something went wrong. And now when I look, it says it’s locked again. I suspect there’s some automatic background thing closing it every time you try to open it again.
Am I misunderstanding the unread, new and latest behaviour?
I perhaps foolishly expected new to show all new posts, but it doesn’t seem to work that way. Looks to me like new and unread only show new or unread TOPICS. Does nothing show you all new posts across all topics?!
We default close topics that are longer than 10k posts as they cause performance problems, especially on phones and mobile devices. Unless you really need everything in one topic I suggest creating a new one.
I was able to post this time, but I see @wumpus said the giant old threads can cause performance problems. If it’s for the good of all, making new threads isn’t the end of the world.
Yeah, as much as I’m in the pro-infinite scroll camp, this is one area where I understand people’s attachment to pages. But going forward, I think it would behoove these longer threads to start a new Discourse 2016 version and then update to a new thread every year.
Just posts in isolation, disconnected from the topics they were in?
There is no direct way to see all the topics you are watching or tracking which are completely read. What’s the use case? You can view all the topics you created from your user page.
Sometimes I just wanted to browse the list of threads I’m subscribed to, even though I’ve read them and there’s no new post. Maybe I’d like to refer to something I’ve read yesterday - a tip in a game, a great write up I’d like to ponder further, etc. In this case, Unread and Latest doesn’t quite like it. I remember Discourse having a “My Post”. That would be the nearest I could think of.
Yes you can always browse your replies and topics from your user page very easily. You can also use search by entering @habibi keyboard to show all posts you made that have the word “keyboard” in them.