I really enjoy the federation feature very much, we move a lot of interesting fediverse threads into the forum and also have people from “outside” replying to threads.

Doing this, I’ve come across a UX issue (well, two) when moving in threads into the forum:

1. I spot a thread somewhere in fedi that I want in the forum
2. I paste the URL of a post from the thread into the nodeBB search bar
3. I click “show results as topics”
4. I find only that post and anything upthread from it
5. I move that thread into the forum
6. To get all the subthreads into the forum, I gather all the URLs of the leaves of the thread, search for them (as topics) and they federate in
7. Any future replies are not federated, unless they @ a forum user og any forum user follows the person replying (and even then maybe not, Fedi is Mysterious)

I would like:

1. A fetch-all-replies button to push after point 4) above, to get the whole thread from the original instance.
2. An automated reply-fetcher polling for new replies in the original thread (w. exponential back-off etc.)

Maybe this already exists or is raised somewhere else? If so, feel free to move my post or just give me a reference.

Thanks for this really excellent piece of software :smile: