A few pages, including Project:Current issues/Archive and VisualEditor/Feedback, encourage people to "start a new discussion" or "post a comment" by linking to a page URL with lqt_method=talkpage_new_topic in the query string. Flow ignores that and shows the Flow board which has Start a new topic near the top. So the links aren't broken, but they're obsolete. The functionality of pre-filling the new topic using lqt_subject_field=New topic subject here is gone, but searching for insource:"lqt_method" shows only external links to translatewiki using lqt_subject_field.
Topic on Project:Village Pump
{{sofixit}}?
- Is there an anchor in Flow boards to scroll to "Start a new topic", in case there's a lot of "About this discussion" above it (in a narrow window)?
- Maybe there is a way to prefill "Flow's Start a new topic".
@Quiddity (WMF) might know
I don't think there's such an anchor.
There is a way to pre-fill the topic title: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Current_issues?topiclist_preloadtitle=Foo . You can also preload the body with a template.
I documented prefillinging topic title and body with a template in Flow/Architecture/URLs . There are tests for these URL parameters, so I hope it's somewhat stable :)
Why not point that link to the main board, or remove the link?
Done for Project:Current issues/Archives. I also cleaned up Project:Current issues/LQT Archive 1.