Hi Mark,

Something weird may have gotten inadvertently introduced today, this just happened on a group of mine.  It almost looks like the system locked-topic notice gets sent or posted to the group as a new message (and topic) when I lock a regular topic.

I locked a topic and all seemingly happened as usual, except a message was now somehow sent (or just posted) to the group, containing the usual system notice:

Looking at the headers online:

Looking at the headers in Tbird:
And there is more weirdness about this:

- There's nothing in the log regarding this stray message, just the normal topic-locking entry for the original topic.
- A new topic with the same title as the locked topic gets created.  If I unlock and relock that same original topic, another notice gets sent to the group and it now threads under the newly-created stray topic.
- I can lock that stray new topic and in that case no additional message gets generated.
- Message moderation doesn't seem to make a difference, at least the "Moderate First Topic Message" vs Unmoderated.
- I can reproduce this in the above (premium) group but I cannot reproduce it in a free test group or another premium group, locking a topic there behaves normally.  I didn't test any more groups.

I tried the usual clear & restart browser, different browser, different PC, log out & back-in, didn't help.  I did upload a few PDFs and created a generic link (to a group topic) in Files in this group but that shouldn't make any difference.

I left for now those newly-created stray topics in that group for your examination.

Cheers,
Christos