Merging and splitting threads glitch

[Aramaech]

There seems to be some glitch right now which is making it impossible to merge threads properly.

My goal is to simple take thread A and merge it into thread B while keeping the original top post and author of thread B. As far as I can tell this is 100% impossible right now.
If I check topic A, select merge and give it the URL for topic B, it keeps the top post and author from topic A.
If I check topic B, select merge and give it the URL for topic A, it keeps the top post and author from topic A.

If I check all the individual posts in topic A, select split to existing thread and input the URL for topic B, it makes the author of the first comment in topic A the NEW author of topic B.

There is literally no way I can find to create a new topic (would be topic B in the examples) and just merge other content onto it.
Every single avenue of approach results in a new author and new top post.

Edited February 2, 2021 by RobotMonkeyHæd

[CoffeeCake]

Merging threads will retain a time-based post order from oldest to newest. The thread you merge into will be the URL retained, however the post order will respect the timestamp of each post.

Whichever post is the oldest of all merged threads will be the first post in the resulting thread by design, no matter how you merge them. I believe there is a plugin in Marketplace that will let you change the timestamp of a post. That may be what you're looking for.

 

[Aramaech]

Oh, that makes sense. I see now why it wasn't working. Thank you.