Moin reported difficulty moving a post due to a generic error message (“There was an error moving posts”) that failed to explain the root cause, which turned out to be a missing category and a subsequent server-side validation issue. Without access to browser developer tools, the user could not diagnose the problem, highlighting the need to display specific error messages directly in the interface. Moin also questioned why splitting posts sometimes bypasses minimum title length requirements depending on whether the original post was created by an admin. zogstrip responded that this issue is likely a bug rather than a feature request, noting that a fix is already in progress via this pull request.
Well, this time it was not that difficult; I hadn’t chosen a category. But, fun fact, it didn’t work when I added a category either. So I checked the browser console:
That didn’t help me either, but finally, in the network tab, I found:
This would have been really helpful to know without using a device where I have access to such tools. Is it possible to show the actual error message in the interface?
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That would have really helped me to understand why I am sometimes able to split into a new topic with the title “Testing” and sometimes not.
Then I would have known it’s the character count and it would have been one step closer to think that there might be a difference if the first selected post was created by an admin. Is it expected that an admin can bypass the min topic title length while splitting a post if the post is written by an admin but not if it was created by a user?
