This is because of invalid markup under some circumstances in the merge topic template.
To reproduce: make sure you have at least one board with no topics in it.
Step 4 looks on my side so:

Looks good to me?
Now try using that bit at the bottom where you merge by topic id, and check it actually has a form tag to live in.
I was hoping that is more intresting issue,
as that only the form tag is missing when the board is empty :(
Sorry to disappoint, I'll see if I can find more interesting bugs for next time 馃槈
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Sorry to disappoint, I'll see if I can find more interesting bugs for next time 馃槈