Reply as linked topic should default to same category

This is a particularly thorny issue if the topic is in a private category because the category drop down of the reply will default to the most popular category, not the category of the original topic which people would assume meaning high likely hood they will end up posting an intended private forum post publicly.

Steps

  1. Select a topic that is not in the same category that defaults to the top of the category drop down box.
  2. Select the reply-as-linked topic option

Expected Behavior

The category drop down matches the category selected in step 1.

Actual Behavior

The category drop down just defaults to the normal default for any new topic post

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Slightly related:

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We should fix this @eviltrout.

This was fixed a few days ago.

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This is still a bug, can you add it to your list @eviltrout?

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Looks like it regressed at some point. Probably an Ember upgrade.

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/fff119a55443176e7f7e32e322daac08d19f5abc

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