When merging posts, likes of the posts being merged do not add up to the final post

[erlend_sh (Erlend Sogge Heggen)]

Duplicate of this:

Transfer likes when moving a new topic into an existing one

I just noticed that when moving a topic (not a reply) into another topic that already existed, the moved topic will lose its likes. Here’s an actual example of a topic that was merged into an existing one. This happens because when we merge a topic into another one, we don’t actually move that topic, instead we close it and make a duplicate of it in the other topic. This inadvertently strips the topic of its likes. Could we: migrate the likes from the “moved” topic to the new post, and remov…

I do agree that this verges on bug territory, since we’re basically causing loss of data.