There are situations where it would be beneficial to link an existing topic to a new one without replying, however, I don’t know how to do this.The result is that people are linking topics together by replying with a link to the topic, only then does the topic appear on the sidebar.
In other words:
I posted a topic - New Dev Required Reading - and want to have related links show up to the right of the topic.
A fellow dev wanted to link an existing topic, so he replied with
No, the only way to link two topics is to include a link in a reply.
Links are bidirectional, though, which means on the other side (the receiving side) it will look like there is a magical link since the link is coming “from” the other topic. So you can kind of do this by putting the link in the other topic, but it’d still be … wait for it … a link in a reply to a topic, somewhere.
If I follow a a linkback to a post, I feel disoriented if I can’t find the outgoing link in the body of the post that I was just directed to. How is this post linking to that other one if there’s no link?
Recommended workaround: If you don’t want to add a reply just to link to some post, I’d recommend editing something like "related: [link]" into the topic or appropriate post (if you’re not a moderator then use the flag to notify one).
