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Title: Disappearing forum threads
Linas 2 Jan 2023
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I just noticed that no fewer than 2 forum threads, which I have commented on, are nowhere to be found anymore. The only trace I have is a notification saying "X liked your forum post in the topic titled", and no title is given.

If the entire thread was deleted by the author or a moderator, it would be nice to be able to see that somewhere, like e.g. in the notifications.
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Liam Squires-Hand 2 Jan 2023
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Yeah sounds like a bug, notifications are supposed to be wiped for a deleted post. Will look into it.
Linas 2 Jan 2023
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That's part of it, yes. But the main issue here is that if the thread has been deleted, I'd like to get a notification something along the lines of "X has deleted the topic titled Y" instead of wondering where the thing disappeared?
Liam Squires-Hand 2 Jan 2023
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I'll think on that point.
Liam Squires-Hand 2 Jan 2023
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Any time a user or mod manually deletes a forum post, it will now notify people who followed it.

I'm not doing it for when a user deletes their account though, as that will end up quite expensive on SQL resources and could potentially be quite spammy to users on notifications if they did a fair few and people followed a fair few. But at least this way if it was a manual deletion, users know.
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