Adding tags to threads in the forum causes weird behaviour

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While adding tags to existing threads here on the forum, sometimes the thread moves to the top of the area, but sometimes it does not. Why same action cause different results?
Thanks!

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I’m not entirely sure I understand the problem correctly, but I think you’re indirectly referring to the indicator showing whether the thread has been edited or not.
If a thread has been edited within a short period of time, the change will not be visible. If the thread is older, it will be marked as edited (the pencil icon will turn orange).
When an edit is displayed, the thread will appear as current at the top of the latest list.
Is that what you mean?

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Thanks for responding. I added tags to number of older threads, part of the moved to the top of the thread list because the thread list is sorted by “latest”. However what I dont understand, why only part of them appear as current at the top of the latest threads list, while part do not, and are left where they are.

The unpredictable behaviour have been like that for a while. Its not a major issue, just really confusing. Just trying to understand is it a software glitch or is there something I dont get.

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Yes, that sounds strange.
Can you link the threads that don’t appear at the top?

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One thing the threads that got bumped have in common is that they have no replies. Thus the first post is also the last post, and editing the last post causes a bump in at least some versions of Discourse.

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On that, Petsamo’s original post is showing for me as “5 hours old” @ 29 Jan 02:51 (which would appear to be my local time, so 28 Jan ~16:51 UTC?) but has an orange pencil?

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What I typically do with tags is only add them:

  • on new threads where a tag is needed
  • on similar threads from the last couple of years immediately after a new thread has appeared.

I’d always assumed that adding tags for threads marked them as unread for everyone which is extremely annoying for very old threads. I’d be interested to see examples where adding a tag didn’t “wake it up again”, and also to see whether the view to the tagging user, a different user, and a not-logged-in user are different.

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