Closing a topic based on time since last message appears broken

martin · April 21, 2021, 11:28pm

I just merged a fix for this, should no longer occur with the reproduction steps @simon outlined and I improved the wording too:

github.com/discourse/discourse

FIX: Invalid Date on "last" shortcut for timer + bookmarks

master ← issue/fix-last-custom-for-timer-and-bookmark

merged 11:26PM - 21 Apr 21 UTC

martin-brennan

+40 -16

See https://meta.discourse.org/t/closing-a-topic-based-on-time-since-last-messag…e-appears-broken/187092 The "last custom date and time" shortcut for the topic timer and bookmarks could get into a state where it had an Invalid Date if the user opened the topic timer modal, clicked Custom Date and then closed the modal without making changes. This has been fixed, the last custom date + time will no longer be set in this case and if somehow the last custom date + time is invalid that option will not show. Also improve the wording from just "Last" to "Last custom datetime"

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Closing a topic based on time since last message appears broken

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