Subject Change

[RustyBarnacle]

I thought it used to be that when a person replied to a topic and changed the subject, that all replies after that would have the new subject.

Did that change because it seems to revert back to the first subject now?

[Kindred]

I believe thaty you are mistaken.

Replies always have used the Re:Original Post Subject by default.
You can change an individual post's subject, but subsequent posts will still use the original subject (and always have)


SMF Does not track replies made to a specific post - all rpelies belong to the original topic post

[RustyBarnacle]

Weird, I could have sworn in the old days that it did.  Oh well, guess maybe I should be putting in a mod request then.  See if anyone is interested.

[YogiBear]

Any of these do, Rusty?

http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?action=search;basic_search=subject

[RustyBarnacle]

No, those are all a little more broad in scope from the looks of things.  I would be looking for something that only changed the subject of all subsequent replies in one topic once someone changes it in their reply.

[Kindred]

You are getting perilously close to threaded view...

But, seriously, since the posts are not tagged as response to a single post, but rather in the thread itself, how would it work if someone posted a new titles, but I was responding to the previous post, before the new title got added?

[Arantor]

You are getting perilously close to threaded view...

You know, I reviewed that when I picked up my vB licence since vB 3 had it... egad it was ugly.


I'm curious, what is the rationale behind changing the subject part way through a topic? Not saying it's a good idea or bad idea, I'm just curious if/how it works for your intended use case.

[RustyBarnacle]

Usually it's just a minor change and since it's obviously not often it's no wonder my memory is pulling tricks on me.  But in the recent instance it came up it was a thread in a roleplaying game about drinks after a session.  Rather than making a new thread, I thought I'd change the subject instead.

So it was going from Drinks after Attack on the King, to Drinks after An Old Man's Request.

[kat]

Any hassles with me marking this as solved, Rusty? (It'll get it off of our "To do" list.

[RustyBarnacle]

Sure, I was hoping somebody would have an Oh yeah from way back in the way back about it and some obscure little change would be all that was needed to make it happen but it doesn't look like thats the case.