If somebody forks one of my messages in a new topic, I lose the tracking of this new topic.
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The discussion revolves around tracking behavior when using “Reply as new topic” in Discourse. Julien initially raised concerns about tracking after forking a post into a new topic. BhaelOchon and Mittineague clarify the context, with Julien confirming it relates to admin moving posts and the gutter link to the forked topic. neil explains that new topics default to “Regular” tracking, meaning users are only notified if mentioned or replied to directly — but users can manually change tracking level. codinghorror argues this is intentional design: users shouldn’t be forced to track every new topic created via “Reply as new topic” (which could be abused), but are always notified when someone forks their post — giving them the choice to check it out and adjust tracking if desired. Julien acknowledges this and thanks codinghorror, noting the feature is relatively new and his initial concern was based on a misunderstanding.
Are you talking about “Reply as new topic” or the admin ability to move existing posts around?
During testing we noticed the gutter link to the newly created topic was lost if the OP was edited.
Is that the case here?
@BhaelOchon : the admin ability to move existing posts around
@Mittineague : the gutter link is present in the two topics (the fork and forked ones)
It’s a new topic, so it defaults to “Regular” tracking (“You will be notified only if someone mentions your @name or replies to your post.”). If you stay in that topic long enough, it will change to “Tracking”. You can change the tracking level yourself, of course.
Would be kind of griefing if I took your post / topic and “replied as new topic” 15 times, and you were forced to track all those new topics.
So this is by design from my perspective.
You are always notified that someone “replied as new topic” to your post (this feature is relatively new), and that should suffice for guidance to check out the new topic, read it (which can infer tracking if over 4 minutes of reading), or reply to it (which infers tracking), or otherwise manually set notifications on it.
* This is what I was missing, sounds perfect to me 
! will upgrade
Thanks 
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