Hari if a discussion is deleted. reserve space for that discussion and mention in the same page as post is deleted.
if a discussion is moved. reserve a page mentioning newly moved discussion link
if a discussion is merged. reserve a page mentioning newly merged discussion link

we need these features ... PLEASE

      Hari

      if a discussion is deleted. reserve space for that discussion and mention in the same page as post is deleted.
      if a discussion is moved. reserve a page mentioning newly moved discussion link

      These don't seem to be in the scope of this extension?

      if a discussion is merged. reserve a page mentioning newly merged discussion link

      This could be done.

      in addition, creating a new rule / new extension: it should search for all flarum discussion numbers d/1 or d/3 .. to latest discussion numbers. where the new extension will create empty pages mentioning "this page is not available" and those newly created discussions to fill gaps will be automatically flagged and will not displayed to the public.
      so our FoF merge plugin will not show errors I guess

      I'm not sure what you mean by this.

          datitisev if a discussion is merged. reserve a page mentioning newly merged discussion link

          This could be done.

          Personally, I've long thought that at least a redirect being in place, but a view showing where to find the merged content would be good too..

              IanM Yeah, I'm more in favor of a redirect as well. That's probably how I would implement it.

                datitisev in addition, creating a new rule / new extension: it should search for all flarum discussion numbers d/1 or d/3 .. to latest discussion numbers. where the new extension will create empty pages mentioning "this page is not available" and those newly created discussions to fill gaps will be automatically flagged and will not displayed to the public.
                so our FoF merge plugin will not show errors I guess

                now the issue is occurring due to the empty gap between discussion numbers right?

                as we are deleting or moving pages it's creating empty space in discussion

                numbers and merge extension could not handle it. so I am asking to run a corn job or something to create dummy pages to fill empty discussion numbers.

                datitisev These don't seem to be in the scope of this extension?

                when merge discussions extension is creating gap between posts .. it should leave a note in the old pages. and old deleted or / moved page should not be visible in forum timeline. these deleted pages should be visible to for those who have direct link access. (like spiders, search engines)

                      Hari I think you misunderstood what the issue relating to numbers is. It is not about discussion IDs, but about the post numbering in a discussion (post #1, post #2, etc... in discussion x).

                        Whenever a discussion is completely merged into another discussion, we should redirect requests to the discussion that no longer holds posts to the one that the posts were merged into. Personally, it seems to me to make the most sense.

                          5 days later

                          Hari What are you trying to say with this? We know of the issue. We don't know how to/how we want to fix it.

                          A temporary solution would be to order the posts with the number starting at a very high number, but that could cause issues, specially with a large number of posts in a discussion, so we haven't done that.

                            Hey guys, can someone say if a bug when you can't merge newer discussion into older discussion is connected with the issue you talked about earlier? If no, can you please fix it, because now the extension is almost unusable (at least it is very hard to use) because of this.

                              Arnold The only way currently to avoid this problem is to never delete posts permanently.

                              Alternatively, you can merge something into a new thread without deleted posts, but that will break pretty much every link to the original thread because the extension doesn't edit the post references when merging that way.

                              Frankly I'm unsure why post numbers are such a problem. If this is a problem that is solvable by:

                              • split every discussion fragment (blocks of posts without missing posts in between) of the problematic discussion into a new discussion
                              • merge all new discussions into a single discussion
                              • merge the discussion you initially wanted to merge into the newly created discussion

                              then it's not like we don't know how to solve it. Just because it isn't the most elegant solution doesn't mean someone should wait until Flarum core changes this with the 20th rewrite in the year 2030. If I knew more about this problem then perhaps we could develop a more sophisticated mechanism, but at this time I barely have the time to develop priority stuff we need, let alone scout the code to understand a seemingly trivial bug.

                                7 days later

                                I have a problem with this extension, when I type title of some existing discussion to merge with current one it doesn't show it in search. I have a lot discussions and when I start typing or enter whole title one of them it doesn't show it so I'm not able to merge because can't choose any new or existing discussion, what is the problem?

                                  bryantmilan a hidden trick is to enter the discussion Id into the search field, for our current discussion the id is 19460.

                                      bryantmilan Oh, looks like its not actually making a request because it's less than 3 characters (the min amount for forum search). This will probably need to get fixed in the ext.

                                          datitisev I think you are right, I tried with 123 in search field and got message:

                                          The requested resource was not found.

                                          When I type only 7 it's not loading and searching and when I type 123 then it starts loading and searching and then get a message below because discussion with ID 123 doesn't exist.. I forgot on that rule with three characters.
                                          Hope soon will be fixed! Thanks anyway.

                                            3 months later

                                            Does new beta 14 fixes merging discussions issue ?

                                              Hari This extension hasn't been updated for beta 14 yet. That specific release will most likely not solve that either, sorry.

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                                                  datitisev is fof team going to fix this issue in next extention update? Is this in roadmap?

                                                      Hari I don't know. We don't really have roadmaps for anything, and this issue is harder to solve than what we originally thought in the past when we tried to fix it. I can't give a better answer than that, sorry.