Sim
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Occasionally we will split a long thread into multiple threads by moving posts to a new thread.
Most frequently we do this when a single thread has become too long (some of our threads span 10+ years) and we want to break it up into smaller, more manageable threads, or more typically for our "news" threads, we break them up by year to make it easier to find historic vs current information.
Unfortunately moving posts does not copy the list of users watching the original thread to the new thread - which can confuse users, some of whom only watch specific threads and don't tend to use the New Posts search to discover new content and so won't know that the conversation has moved to a new thread.
It might be useful to include an option when moving posts to a new thread to also copy the list of users who were watching the original thread - in many cases, the old thread will no longer get any new content.
We could just notify the author - but that relies on users actually logging on and reading their alerts to discover this - while watching users can optionally receive emails when new content is created in the new thread which they otherwise may not know about.
Most frequently we do this when a single thread has become too long (some of our threads span 10+ years) and we want to break it up into smaller, more manageable threads, or more typically for our "news" threads, we break them up by year to make it easier to find historic vs current information.
Unfortunately moving posts does not copy the list of users watching the original thread to the new thread - which can confuse users, some of whom only watch specific threads and don't tend to use the New Posts search to discover new content and so won't know that the conversation has moved to a new thread.
It might be useful to include an option when moving posts to a new thread to also copy the list of users who were watching the original thread - in many cases, the old thread will no longer get any new content.
We could just notify the author - but that relies on users actually logging on and reading their alerts to discover this - while watching users can optionally receive emails when new content is created in the new thread which they otherwise may not know about.
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