"{user} changed the title to {new title} from {old title}"

arda

Antoine Thanks but, it's hard to find for someone who doesn't know that.

It wouldn't be bad to display also the old title. Before me opening a PR, let's discuss about this.

jordanjay29

arda It's probably better not to display the old name easily if it was offensive or rule-breaking.

datitisev

This was changed in beta 6, I believe.
See https://github.com/flarum/core/issues/428#issuecomment-203784499.

arda

datitisev This was changed in beta 6, I believe.

You're right, but can we have it back?

jordanjay29 It's probably better not to display the old name easily if it was offensive or rule-breaking.

I believe this won't be a problem as we can already see the old title by hovering it, if you still think it's a problem, let's have the ability to hide the old title inside the 3-dot button below the delete button.

Nathan5226

arda let's have the ability to hide the old title inside the 3-dot button below the delete button.

Or have the Ability to delete the old title under the delete button? It'd make more sense to delete the old title then to let anyone see the old title if it was by any chance offensive.

datitisev

arda You're right, but can we have it back?

This was already discussed back in 2016, and you should look at the whole Github issue I linked before to see what exactly was the thought process.
Unless you have a good reason to change it in core for everybody, there's not really a good reason to change it back.

There maybe should be a way to view the old title in mobile, but for desktop it's fine.

arda

Nathan5226 Or have the Ability to delete the old title under the delete button? It'd make more sense to delete the old title then to let anyone see the old title if it was by any chance offensive.

I told you the same.

Nathan5226

arda I told you the same.

But, I said Delete, not Hide ?

arda

datitisev Well, let's ask other users:

http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=5b54b210e4b094aa41306902

Nathan5226

datitisev There maybe should be a way to view the old title in mobile

Maybe hold down the Current Title and see the Old Title?

datitisev

arda I asked you for reasons. Not for you to ask others.

I understand if you prefer one to the other, but there need to be good reasons to change it back after what was discussed.

jordanjay29

arda You can ask other users, that's fine. But as @datitisev points out, you'll need to convince the core devs with good reasoning to restore the old functionality. At this point, this is good extension fodder, and I'd encourage anyone who wants this change to work on an extension to make it happen.

arda

Nathan5226 You already see it by hovering it.

But this may be a good idea.

Nathan5226

arda But this may be a good idea.

Im always here for great ideas.

arda

jordanjay29 I'm on it. Thanks for the inspiration ?

Pollux

@arda

Try this as a custom CSS:

article.DiscussionRenamedPost span[title]::before {
    display: block;
    content: attr(title);
}