The MEGATOPIC: public good, or public menace?

[_diondiondion (Dion)]

It’d be great if, in addition to automatically creating a new topic once 10k posts have been reached, site admins could also set up a time interval at which megatopics are automatically archived and continued in a new topic, e.g. at the end of each month, quarter, half-year, or year.

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

We need to crosslink this topic

Linked topics (splitting and managing megatopics)

I’ve just merged a feature which creates a new linked topic automatically when a topic is auto-closed based on auto close topics post count site setting. This feature is especially useful for automatically splitting and managing megatopics. Here’s how it works Let’s say auto close topics post count setting is set to 10000 posts and a topic (with title “Introduce yourself!”) just reached that limit. Now we’ll close that topic and create a new linked topic to continue the discussion. The first…

So, the earlier requests…

@AstonJ

I would just have it so that when it reaches 10K, it’s automatically closed and the system posts a continuation Topic and then links the two. (Perhaps with a mod flag to bypass the restriction).

@erlend_sh

A continuation topic is automatically created. E.g. “What did you have for lunch today?” gets automatically superseded by “What did you have for lunch today? (2)”. This would work exactly like our Linked Topic creation, along with a closing notice linking to the new linked topic.

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Linked topics (splitting and managing megatopics)

I’ve just merged a feature which creates a new linked topic automatically when a topic is auto-closed based on auto close topics post count site setting. This feature is especially useful for automatically splitting and managing megatopics. Here’s how it works Let’s say auto close topics post count setting is set to 10000 posts and a topic (with title “Introduce yourself!”) just reached that limit. Now we’ll close that topic and create a new linked topic to continue the discussion. The first…

I’m sorry I didn’t close the loop here, but now I have!

Jeff Atwood