Master_Cylinder wrote:It's been that way for decades.
And why it probably needs a rethink now in 3.1. Things change for the better.
DavidIQ wrote:One reason it's there is for when you merge two topics. Helps to track where the posts came from.
But seriously, does anyone really care where a post got merged from? Not from my experience of running forums for 20 years they don't. plus if your merging two topics together, then one of them is vanishing and makes no sense showing thread title in posts for that other topic now gone (merged with another). And you only end up with a new thread title and posts all showing a different thread title because they still show different titles from other topics they got merged from originally. Rather confusing to say the least for people reading the new topic. It certainly not a good reason to leave it as is.