I simply added an “in” after the post author and then include the topic title.
(slightly confusing example since the top-most quote is technically also an external one, but manually added. That was mere coincidence so please disregard it)
Okay, let me rephrase: They look nearly identical. The arrow is a fine additional clue, but I want to add the topic title as a much clearer callout that says “This quote is from a different topic”.
Maybe, but showing category is a bit much. Should we also show all the tags? I think the topic title should suffice, if we do anything at all here, @sam.
I agree that quoting off topic is not terribly common, however linking off topic by simply pasting a link is common enough.
The code path for linking off topic and quoting off topic is pretty much identical, in both case we use the same renderer:
[quote="codinghorror, post:3, topic:13999"]
Yeah there is still a lot of work to do in this area cc: @eviltrout
[/quote]
https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-moving-posts-links-quotes-that-were-moved-too-dont-get-updated/13999/3?u=sam
The whole quote format is not robust enough to handle topic moves.
We do not support the ability to quote (or onebox) secure topics and get title expansions cause applying security is a nightmare. (do all the users looking at this topic have permission to see the other topic? very hard to answer)