I just wanted to reply to a hardware related topic from 2024, and because it was about a wifi chipset that is widely used and causes much trouble which is well known, this topic still is relevant. Yet, you can´t reply to it any longer, because it got closed 30 days after last reply.
I wonder, if auto closing a topic is really a good idea, sometimes even after years you might have something useful to contribute.
The only exception I can imagine is, when the original poster has marked his topic solved.
Just a thought I had.
This was discussed.
If a topic is still relevant for you after some years, simply open a new thread and link the old one with a brief summary or new informations…
As others noted, this was discussed at length when we implemented it.
What happens when you ‘resurrect’ an old topic is that every participant in that topic gets notified that there’s a new reply.
Even if they’ve moved well on from the issue or even from using openSUSE.
Starting a new topic that links to the old lets you reply to the topic, and then those who want to continue the discussion get notified, and those who don’t do not have to do anything to not be notified.
That would probably be a feature request for upstream. As far as I know, there is not native support for that, or a plugin or theme component to do that.
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