Hey, how can I get Discourse to do X?

Here’s the message that pops up when I try to change a username:

If you change your username, all prior quotes of your posts and @name mentions will be broken, and your post history will be interrupted. Are you absolutely sure you want to?

Maybe wumpus can clarify what it means that “your post history will be interrupted”.

-Tom

I get a pencil under the post I just made in this thread, Tom. But I don’t get one under any of my posts in the movie podcast links thread or the 3x3 thread. Are the imported posts not editable? I hope I’m just 'doing it wrong."

That needs to be fixed. We have several posts that require ongoing edits and will continue to require ongoing edits.

EDIT: Fixed! Let me know if you still have any issues, Chris.

-Tom

For ongoing edit posts, make them wiki using the wrench icon at the bottom of the post.

And although we did add “history will be interrupted” as a warning to username changes, I believe that only refers to notification history, not post history. I’ll edit the copy to fix that in a bit. I tested it on try.discourse.org and post history wasn’t affected.

I’m seeing the pencils now. Thank you!!!

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.

-Tom

What’s the closest equivalent to the New Posts view on vB that shows all unread posts across all categories since last visit?

You will need to change the definition of new in your user preferences, then visit the new topics page… New is in the eye of the beholder…

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.

-Tom

EDIT: Never mind. Fixed!

I recreated the QT3 at Night skin for myself in Firefox using an addon Barstein mentioned in the old forum. It’s here:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dark-background-light-text/

I’m not a technical user, and this took me about two minutes to set up. I recommend it :)

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.

Oops, now try it, Mr. Bob.

14 posts were split to a new topic: What style should be used for unread topics?

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?!

Diego

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.

-Tom

Even every few years is fine. The reality is nobody reads the entirety of those 10k+ reply topics anyway, do they?

Is there a way to see subscribed threads with new posts, e.g. the vB Settings page?