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
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https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-moving-posts-links-quotes-that-were-moved-too-dont-get-updated/13999/3?u=sam
I started patching this up here:
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/e5234b38b8efd0c88c824e620b15dd080c1ef8b4
I do feel this is ripe for a review when we move to the new Markdown engine
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Preview don’t work right cause of Zalgo API
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The whole quote format is not robust enough to handle topic moves.
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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)
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This ?
