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notification of posts on my topic is misleading
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I created a topic title with no first post, and then when people commented on the topic, I got notifications

<Name> replied to your post in <topic title> on "<board>"
View post: <http://ee-flow.wmflabs.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Flow_Team_Retrospective&workflow=0509f793805b34dffb6efa163e68c4ac&action=view#flow-post-0509f7b8c0cf34dffb6efa163e68c4ac>

Since I never wrote a post, this is misleading.

I think we need a separate message for top-level posts on a topic. Since the placeholder text for these is 'Comment on "<topic title>"', maybe the notification should be

<Name> commented on the topic "<topic title>" you created on "<board>."

(It's not "your topic" since that implies ownership of a topic.)
Does someone who edits a topic title gets notifications? If so, then their message could be

<Name> commented on the topic "<topic title>" that you edited on "<board>."

Version: master
Severity: minor

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bz57447