Moving posts? A chore.
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There's two ways to move posts out of a thread in NodeBB:
Forking and Moving.Forking
Forking lets you select posts from a thread, creates a new one, and moves the posts there.
You can access this functionality from the topic tools menu at the bottom of the topic.
(side note: Move Topic has nothing to do with moving posts)
Choosing Fork Topic opens this dialog:
You enter a title for the new topic, select posts from the existing one and hit OK.
You can not move posts to an existing topic from here.Moving
Moving lets you move a single post from a thread to a different, existing thread.
You can access this functionality from the ellipsis menu:
This opens the following dialog:
Unlike Discourse, you can not search for topics by name here! You have to manually look up the ID in another tab.Conclusion
Splitting posts off a topic into a new one works okay. But it doesn't have a numeric input or a select+replies feature which would be useful to move major derailments.
Moving posts into an existing topic is such a chore that it is probably never worth the effort. You have to move every post individually and look up an ID manually.
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And I completely forgot to mention that this applies to the Move command:
https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/19247/selecting-the-move-action-on-a-post-bumps-you-to-the-bottom-of-the-thread/1