Last year I installed a Discourse instance set up on a Digital Ocean droplet. It has worked fine, but now I want to make a series of related posts on a certain topic over a period of several months and make them read only. I would like discussion of these posts to take place in a separate topic so …

[image] carninglipartners: Last year I installed a Discourse instance set up on a Digital Ocean droplet. It has worked fine, but now I want to make a series of related posts on a certain topic over a period of several months and make them read only. I do this for challenges (aka assignments) …

Archiving a topic would be closer to true read only. Closing a topic only prevents replies, it still allows other actions (likes, edits within the allowed edit window, etc).

Can I effectively make a topic read-only?

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cpradio (cpradio) March 25, 2016, 10:50pm 2

Close them? The Reply as Linked Topic will still work, or you can customize the close message to point them to the Discussion topic.

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Can I effectively make a topic read-only?

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