Display reply-as-new-topic as reply under original post

[tophee (Christoph)]

Continuing the discussion from Tracking after "reply as new topic":

@codinghorror

You are always notified that someone “replied as new topic” to your post (this feature is relatively new), and that should suffice for guidance to check out the new topic, read it (which can infer tracking if over 4 minutes of reading), or reply to it (which infers tracking), or otherwise manually set notifications on it.

This is great, but I even though this may seem a bit pedantic, I would also think that the “reply as new topic” should also be displayed as a reply in under the original post so that readers of that post can follow that path. Currently, they will only know about the reply if the post is being quoted. Or am I missing something?

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

It is up to the author to retain the (pre-filled) quote or link between topics when composing the new topic, yes.

[ChrisBeach (Chris)]

@tophee

Currently, they will only know about the reply if the post is being quoted. Or am I missing something?

I’m with you.

Personally I’d like Discourse to display a prominent “User X has replied as a new topic Y” message on the old thread, akin to the eye-catching messages that get inserted when a mod splits posts into a new topic.

I want to encourage users to use the “reply as new linked topic” feature as it keeps topics on-topic, but will they bother if they don’t see links displayed in both directions?