Keep (or not) original title of topics, if edited

[LeroyG]

Hello everyone,

When the (generally nonsensical) title of a topic (question) is edited, will it be useful to keep the original one for the record?

(Edit) May be useful when we try to find a recent question by some remembered keywords, or to avoid a misunderstanding. Maybe you can add other reasons. (/Edit)

Thanks.

Two topics (questions) whose titles were changed:

LibreOffice don't open after update to 7.2.2 (Window 10)

Not you; @LeroyG wrote it, replacing the original title (now he don’t remember it).

How to insert a footnote but keep the cursor where it was?

Edited subject title for better findability.

Related question relevant to the previous site manager: Editing question titles (and disabling links on other pages)

[anon87010807]

Point taken. Wasn’t aware that editing a title would affect links to a topic so badly.

[LeroyG]

@anon87010807

would affect links

No. Links are updated (Edit) within this site (not in other sites) (/Edit). Thanks @guilhem.

[guilhem]

Links from external sites are preserved as well (assuming the target is taken from the -icon or from the browser’s URL bar), because https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/foo/69681/3 and https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/bar/69681/3 point to the same place. AFAICT Discourse ignores the slug when the URL has a topic number.