Hello, a member recently registered on my site. I had published some of his YouTube videos under my name, and now I would like to change the owner of these topics to his name. Unfortunately, I am getting an ownership attribution error. Do you have any idea what might be causing this error? Thanks. …

Well, I’m changing quite often ownership of federated posts. But I admit — I change it before that topic/OP has federated, so perhaps I should say I’m changing ownership of a post that will be federated. If I remember right I have changed ownership of already federated one by moving that topic unde…

There’s often a bit more detail in the /logs or browser console, if you can check those for extra clues. :crossed_fingers:

I have this in browser console (nothing in logs): <a class="lightbox" href="https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/1/5/b/15b992acac053675a880e84d07e71ab49d77daa2.png" data-download-href="/uploads/short-url/36bC8o2SUf4reaTdhSNqJYl8hay.png?dl=1" title="This image displays a browser console filled with various warnings and messages related to content security policies, cookie access, and deprecated code within a Discourse application. (Captioned by AI)" rel="noopener nofollow ugc">[This image displays a browser console filled with various warnings and messages related to content security policies, cookie access, and deprecated code within a Discourse application. (Captioned by AI)]

Hmm :thinking: I would have expected to see something in both those places. Was that a shot of the browser console when you attempted to perform the change ownership?

I have this now: <a class="lightbox" href="https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/3/8/0/38061bdc19a5c10fdb4973d6451d426add5acdd4.png" data-download-href="/uploads/short-url/7ZBPeRtQTERZA62CQKe7hQzrIaw.png?dl=1" title="This image displays the developer tools of a web browser, specifically showing the network request details for a web page, including headers, timing, and other technical information. (Captioned by AI)" rel="noopener nofollow ugc">[This image displays the developer tools of a web browser, specifically showing the network request details for a web page, including headers, timing, and other technical information. (Captioned by AI)]

did you originally publish them with ActivityPub?

that’s probably why. [Bild] Changing ownership of a topic doesn’t work It’s a current limitation(/feature?) of the ActivityPub plugin

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hast du sie ursprünglich mit ActivityPub veröffentlicht?

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