Changing timestamp of topic replies - Easier way?

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I see that there’s now a way to change the topic’s timestamp through the UI and that it does a relative timestamp update for all following posts. That’s awesome!

However, I’m looking for a way to specify a timestamp for replies WITHIN a topic. I’m wanting to do an archival/restoration project for an old forum that’s since been deleted and will be manually pulling post text from Archive.org. Having to muck around in the CLI is going to make using Discourse unfeasible.

Is there any way to extend that functionality to subsequent replies within a topic, or at least a way to make mucking around in the CLI not such a tedious project? Hoping there’s something easier than the last time I checked: Editing post date?

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Sounds like what you need is an importer that will maintain the time stamps.

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No, the content is being brought over manually from Archive.org - There’s nothing to import.

What I’m hoping for is a plugin or something to add the date change UI that already exists for the first post in the thread to all subsequent replies.

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I was thinking that code would either import a copy of what is on archive.org or would work from a downloaded copy.

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Delayed response - we moved across the country!

No, the posts would be copy/pasted over manually as there’s a lot of attachments and a lot of cleanup/reorganizing to do.

What I’m after is a way to change the date of ANY post to ANY date, without it also offsetting the relative date for every other post in the thread.

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You’re really going to need to use the command line for this sort of thing.

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어차피 수동으로 처리하는 거라면 다음을 수행할 수 있습니다.

  1. 각 답글을 별도의 새 주제로 추가합니다.
  2. 날짜와 시간을 수동으로 수정합니다.
  3. 답글을 “기존 주제”로 이동합니다 — 즉, 원본 게시글에 대한 답글로 만듭니다.

수고스러운 작업이지만, 동작은 합니다.

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저도 이 기능을 활용할 수 있는 사용 사례를 발견해서, 게시 날짜를 수정할 수 있도록 하는 기능의 구현 난이도가 어느 정도인지 파악하려고 후속 질문을 드립니다.

현재 토픽의 “렌치” 아이콘 아래에 있는 버튼/기능을 게시물의 “렌치” 아이콘에도 거의 그대로 적용할 수 있을 것 같은데요. 다만 저는 Discourse의 내부 구조에 대해 아직 잘 모르기 때문에, 이 방식이 어떤 복잡성을 초래할 수 있는지는 잘 파악하지 못하겠습니다.

Erik님 - 말씀하신 방법은 잘 작동하긴 하지만, 규모가 커지면 다소 번거롭습니다!

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