# Edit history doesn’t cover author changing

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/edit-history-doesn-t-cover-author-changing/401545
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [April 26, 2026, 5:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/edit-history-doesn-t-cover-author-changing/401545 "2026-04-26T05:43:10Z")
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### Author: ![Jagster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jagster/32/192154_2.png) [@Jagster](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jagster)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2026, 5:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/edit-history-doesn-t-cover-author-changing/401545/1 "2026-04-26T05:43:11Z")

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I woke up yesterday to a situation where `Edit history visible to public` doesn’t cover changing owner of a topic/first post. I haven’t allow that, so I reckoned that only I as an admin and other staff members can see that information, because it is a part of edit history.

What I didn’t try (shame on me) if the reasons are

- that setting is broken and then this is a bug
- new author will see that, because that user reported about visibility
- this is a conflict between some TC or plugin

For me hiding that is kind of important. I have a bunch of users who struggles using Discourse (and **that** would be worth of a topic its own). They send to me text, I publish it and then changing owner. But now it looks like I actually wrote it and then changed author.

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