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Re: Thread Titles and Unwanted Persistence
« Reply #15 on: January 25, 2007, 05:43:09 PM » |
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Test. In the board list, this thread shows up with the most recent title change. But in Active Topics, it still shows the OP-associated title regardless of subsequent-post changes. |
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Re: Thread Titles and Unwanted Persistence
« Reply #16 on: January 25, 2007, 05:44:04 PM » |
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And my previous post was a reply to the post wherein I'd edited the title to "Test Change: Reply To OP".
Change didn't carry forward!
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Re: Lawers have nothing better to do than change forum titles all day
« Reply #17 on: January 25, 2007, 06:01:05 PM » |
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Quoted Torp's "Lawers have nothing better to do than change forum titles all day" post. |
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Re: Thread Titles and Unwanted Persistence
« Reply #18 on: January 25, 2007, 06:02:40 PM » |
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Previous post reflected Torp's title on "Recent Posts" page.
Used "Reply" button at top of page on this one. I expect the OP title to reflect.
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Re: Thread Titles and Unwanted Persistence
« Reply #19 on: January 25, 2007, 06:03:12 PM » |
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Told ya.
I rule at IT.
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Re: Thread Titles and Unwanted Persistence
« Reply #20 on: January 25, 2007, 06:04:10 PM » |
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You rule!
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Re: Thread Titles and Unwanted Persistence
« Reply #21 on: January 25, 2007, 06:05:01 PM » |
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As if I'd stoop so low. Looks like you have to actually quote, not just click "Quote". |
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Re: Thread Titles and Unwanted Persistence
« Reply #22 on: January 25, 2007, 06:05:30 PM » |
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Or not! My quoted replies aren't perpetuating the changed title.  |
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Re: Thread Titles and Unwanted Persistence
« Reply #23 on: January 25, 2007, 06:08:26 PM » |
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Or not! My quoted replies aren't perpetuating the changed title. The internets just hate you.  |
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Re: Thread Titles and Unwanted Persistence
« Reply #24 on: January 25, 2007, 06:11:46 PM » |
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Or not! My quoted replies aren't perpetuating the changed title. Only on the "Recent Posts" page. At least that's how it works for me. The "Active Topics" or whatever it's called always has the OP title. You so unrule. |
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Re: Thread Titles and Unwanted Persistence
« Reply #25 on: January 25, 2007, 06:12:57 PM » |
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You so unrule.
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Re: Thread Titles and Unwanted Persistence
« Reply #26 on: January 26, 2007, 10:33:45 AM » |
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Solution:
Normalize the damn database. Errrrmmmm, I mean, is there a way to have the recent posts page reflect the title as held by the original post?
I think I've fixed the Active Topics/Recent Posts by Category page so it now displays the original title. However, the Recent Posts on the front page uses a very simple, fast query to get the last 30 posts, and I'm not sure I want to change it so that it uses the subject/title from the original post. It might slow down the front page load time. I'm very tempted to normalize the database, but that would be a serious branch from the smf codebase, and I'm hesitant to do that. It would be much tougher to incorporate any patches or mods built by the SMF team and community. One possible workaround might be when a user creates a new post to always overwrite the subject for that post with the current subject of the original post. We don't really gain much from allowing a responder to modify the subject, anyway. |
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Re: Thread Titles and Unwanted Persistence
« Reply #27 on: January 26, 2007, 10:35:56 AM » |
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One possible workaround might be when a user creates a new post to always overwrite the subject for that post with the current subject of the original post. We don't really gain much from allowing a responder to modify the subject, anyway. It seems it might be easy to disable or hide the subject field from any other than the OP and admins. |
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Re: Thread Titles and Unwanted Persistence
« Reply #28 on: January 26, 2007, 12:54:38 PM » |
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One possible workaround might be when a user creates a new post to always overwrite the subject for that post with the current subject of the original post. We don't really gain much from allowing a responder to modify the subject, anyway. It seems it might be easy to disable or hide the subject field from any other than the OP and admins. Yeah, I actually changed the subject field to readonly for the non-OP last night, but then changed it back. It solved the problem of pranksters changing the subject for fun, but doesn't solve the original problem of a person replying to a post that had the original title (w/o spoiler). |
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Re: Thread Titles and Unwanted Persistence
« Reply #29 on: January 26, 2007, 01:36:22 PM » |
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I understand the (de)normalization issue and it's fair enough you don't want to delve into that. It seems like your workaround idea might be the way to go.
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