Not sure if this is the correct behaviour, but when moving posts to an existing topic do the posts “blend” together by date or do all the posts that are “merged in” appear at the bottom and dates are ignored. I moved posts with older dates (20 day ago) to an existing topic with existing posts (many…

I believe that is expected behaviour. If they interspersed throughout the topic based on date they’d break the flow of conversation.

Yes, and also both approaches (randomly mix dates vs. append) have their downsides so there is no perfect solution here regardless.

Hi there, first things first: Happy new year everyone and keep up the spirit of Discourse for the next decade to come! We just moved some posts from the topic [1] to a newly created topic at [2] on our forum and found the order of posts just completely reversed. As far as I am concerned, this is t…

The moved posts kept their dates. That topic was created on Nov’18 and those posts you moved were made in April. And they still keep their dates as expected.

[image] Chaboi_3000: That topic was created on Nov’18 and those posts you moved were made in April. And they still keep their dates as expected. That’s true. Probably, they have already been moved to this topic the other day. [image] Chaboi_3000: The moved posts kept their dates. Whil…

Little update to this one - you can now choose to order all the combined posts by date when you merge. :partying_face: [preserve chronological order after merging]

Déplacement des messages vers un sujet existant : les dates sont hors ordre

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JammyDodger Novembre 6, 2023, 9:08 8

Petite mise à jour concernant ceci : vous pouvez désormais choisir de trier tous les messages combinés par date lors de la fusion.

Suggestions to improve "preserve chronological order after merging"

Sujet		Réponses	Vues
How to fix an out of order mistake after moving two sets of posts to a new topic Support	6	1442	Mars 3, 2019
Moving posts into an existing topic doesn't keep chronology Feature completed	44	10267	Juin 14, 2023
A way to reorder posts? Feature	23	7362	Février 1, 2025
Re-order merged posts Support	6	592	Août 16, 2022
Suggestions to improve "preserve chronological order after merging" UX moderation	3	122	Juillet 27, 2024

Déplacement des messages vers un sujet existant : les dates sont hors ordre

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