Summarize this Topic → Write a Summary for this Topic

[markschmucker (Mark S)]

@codinghorror

You can already sort of do that… either:

• edit the first post to include the summary
• edit the second post to be a summary

Or, eventually:

• add another post and then manually. as staff, change the date on it so it sorts under the first post (not currently possible, but I think it should be)

Could a webhook help automate this for new topics? I have a webhook, and receive a topic event with posts_count=1, so I know it’s a new topic. Immediately after that, I receive a post event with post_number=1.

At that point, I assume I could easily create a second post via the API as a placeholder for the summary. But I would very much prefer to have the summary as the first post- can I juggle the posts at this point somehow, via the API? Maybe delete the first post, add my summary post, and re-post the first post?