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  • their crosspost was missing the additional information they added in the body of the original post

    What do you mean “missing”? Are cross posts supposed to copy over the original post body? Post bodies often contain notes specifically for the community they are posted in and you wouldn’t want the original body. Just the link and your own post body. Even if they are copied, you can certainly remove that text and write your own. Hell, you could just delete the “crossposted from” note, too!

    This is not a bug. It’s a tiny feature the web UI does that Thunder chose not to implement.

    (I fixed your nouns in the quote. You should have just done that in your edit.)

    Edit: indeed, the web UI quotes the entire original post body and adds the cross post note. You are free to delete all of it.

    I realize, in this case, crossposting this post without also adding a body explaining the post is a little odd. But it’s always the poster’s choice to add or modify the post body after clicking crosspost. Could Thunder add a feature to copy the original body as a quote? Sure. But it’s not a big.


  • Huh, then you worded your comment kind of strangely.

    In any case, I think the rest of my comment applies then. It’s a feature of the web UI and not one that is particularly useful in my opinion since the post already contains metadata about cross posts, and Thunder displays the age of all of the crossposts making it pretty easy to identify the original. (Unless the crosspost was done at the same time as the original post, which usually indicated the original author was posting it in several places at once, in which case which one is really “the original”?)

    If the web UI doesn’t show this data, then that’s the fault of the web UI.


  • Edit: Maybe I misunderstood. Are you implying that Thunder does this, too, but only if there’s already content in the post body?


    Ah, sounds like it’s a web UI front-end feature then. It just sticks that text in there for you. That’s odd when there’s back-end data that contains the cross post information and accessible from the API.

    (At least that’s my assumption. Thunder shows crosspost data in a handy table. I feel certain it’s not generating this data on its own from some kind of search. The database must already contain this data and have an API for it, so why does the web UI stuff it into the post body at the same time?)








  • You gotta admit it’s confusing and abnormal to put a single “no” entry in the middle of a comma-delimited list of “yes” entries. Normally you’d say,

    It has this, that, and the other thing, and no bad things, malthings, or blahs.

    Sometimes the “and” and “or” are left out.

    It has this, that, the other thing, and no bad things, malthings, blahs.

    The original commenter took this format, and mixed it all up like

    It has this, no bad thing, other thing

    Is that no other thing or yes other thing? Who can tell? Only people who didn’t need to be told these things in the first place.