The discussion revolves around the ability to modify or add a Featured Link (URL) to topics after posting. nathank explains that while the Featured Link functionality is useful, it currently lacks the ability to edit or add links after creation, requiring users to use a Rails Console workaround, which is inaccessible to those on Managed Hosting. anon36484860 seeks a simpler workaround, and Jagster suggests a manual process of creating a new topic and transferring posts, which results in data loss. nathank reiterates the existing console solution, while anon36484860 mentions a previously found method involving editing the first post but cannot recall the details.
The long standing but little known (by regular users) Featured Link functionality is very helpful. It would be more helpful (and visible) if there was the ability to edit or add a link.
Current functionality
When creating a new topic:
When you paste a URL directly into the Title field (as your first action in that field), the Title of the site is pulled through and you get a nice little link at the end of the title:
Starting new topic using new link, moving posts from old to new and deleting that old one. And there is loss of some meta data and OP has newer datum than posts.
Little bit too much manual work for such low level functionality that has only one purpose: being direct link to original source that will be offered in topic too.
I am using Managed Hosting, so I don’t have access to console. But I found another workaround by editing first post and deleting all post content, but can’t find the exact link to the steps. There was a topic walking through those steps.
