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Dissappearing topics?

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corringham
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Re: Dissappearing topics?

In the "Other Forums" section, posts are being deleted from General Chat, Tech Help, and Gaming. But so far News & Announcements (which is totally useless these days) are untouched as far as I can see,

Edit: My Account/Billing count is dropping now...   and Full Fibre...

jab1
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Re: Dissappearing topics?

Hopefully we will get a believable explanation by this time next year - if the forum still exists, but I doubt it.

John
jab1
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Re: Dissappearing topics?

😡The silence is deafening.😡

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corringham
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Re: Dissappearing topics?


@jab1 wrote:

😡The silence is deafening.😡


All the staff are obviously busy pressing the delete key...

corringham
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Re: Dissappearing topics?

The number of Topics, and the post counts continue to fall - but I notice that the "Fixed problems" count is static. I would have expected the number of topics marked "Fixed" would fall as they get deleted. They could easily end up with more Fixed than Topics.

jab1
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Re: Dissappearing topics?

Someone, somewhere has dropped an almighty lump of concrete with this, but they'll never admit it.

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Dan_the_Van
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Re: Dissappearing topics?

Unless you have an examples of threads and posts which are now no longer available to view, I'm wondering if the issue is with the totaliser of the number of posts at fault rather than a mass deletion of topics or posts.

 

 

corringham
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@Dan_the_Van wrote:

Unless you have an examples of threads and posts which are now no longer available to view, I'm wondering if the issue is with the totaliser of the number of posts at fault rather than a mass deletion of topics or posts.


No, threads are definitely disappearing. 

Go to the Broadband forum, select the last page (was 1054 earlier today,currently 420) then refresh your browser. 

The list of items on that page get fewer, then you get an error when that page goes away. 

The threads on that page aren't being deleted, it is a few pages earlier that they are going from. For some reason some dregs are being left at the end.

You can also watch the count of Topics at the top level - that has fallen by well over 10,000 so far today. Since I started looking over 500,000 posts have been deleted.

Dan_the_Van
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Re: Dissappearing topics?

How is yours set? This is the default

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Linear Format Topics per page, the small the number the greater number of pages

With 30 I get 417 pages

corringham
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Re: Dissappearing topics?

As far as I know I use the default - currently last page is 410.

Edit: now last page is 407... now 406

jab1
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Re: Dissappearing topics?

Currently:

Screenshot 2024-08-31 at 14-38-47 Forum - Plusnet Community.png

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Re: Dissappearing topics?

I’m surprised this thread is still here……..

Dan_the_Van
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Re: Dissappearing topics?

14:46

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I do not believe there are dark forces or BT involved, something strange is happening, if recent posts/threads  disappear then it would be a major issue.

Edit: for now I will no longer comment as this is not really going anywhere

jab1
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Re: Dissappearing topics?

Whatever it is that is happening, no-one seems to be enlightening us - or, apparently, doing anything about it. I first reported the issue at 11.08AM yesterday, and topics/counts are falling like a brick.

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corringham
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Re: Dissappearing topics?


@Dan_the_Van wrote:

I do not believe there are dark forces or BT involved, something strange is happening, if recent posts/threads  disappear then it would be a major issue.


I don't think whatever is happening can be anything other than deliberate action. Only certain fora are affected (so far), and they are mostly the ones with the most posts. The criteria being used aren't obvious, but it may be at least in part the age of the thread that is a factor.

The motivation for doing this also isn't clear. The effort to cull posts will cost more than leaving them. If particular forum is no longer required then it could simply be removed rather than deleting individual posts.

Since Plusnet make a thing out of having a "community" it seems strange to totally sideline that community.