When I hit the “New topic” button it does not immediately bring up the new topic form. Instead, the form is displayed after I select one of the threads in the forum. It still appears that it is creating a new topic, but in the background. Once you open any existing topic, the new topic you were trying to create appears (completely correct; i.e. for the forum you intended to post in, even if the topic you entered is in a different forum).
This is only happening on one site (https://discussions.scouting.org/), so I presume it’s something they have configured incorrectly. I’ve brought this issue up there, to no avail.
So here, if you’re logged in, not an admin, not a moderator, and are trust level 4… then it adds the closed-topic class to the page body.
This class is only removed if model.closed is false, which means… if it’s not a closed topic (or even if it’s not a topic at all) the closed-topic class will be applied.
Heheh I wonder if I’m the reason for that change. I discovered that bug and exploited it liberally. I never grasped the reason to require people to start a new thread when you’ve got additional information to add to an old one.