Hi, we have thousands of old/obsolete topics across our forum which we like to delete. I already searched meta for an appropriate way to achieve this but couldn’t found a proper solution. Would it be enough to iterate through a list of topic-ids and set the deleted_at - flag of each topic we like …

Perhaps you just want to unlist them? That should keep them from being indexed. Do you want to do this once, or on a regular basis?

Hi, yes, we want to unlist them and keep them from being indexed. This will be done once as we can adjust any upcoming “faulty” topic/post, which produces crawling issues, by hand. Our forum is very old (started 1996) and got migrated a lot of times with weird/old syntax in raw-text and other stu…

Thanks for your advice! In case we choose to delete those topics completely I’ll set deleted_at and visible=false via a SQL-Query. Those topics will be deleted by a sidekiq-job after 30 days. But if these topics should be kept, I do what you suggested and “delete” them via a little ruby-snippet usi…

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) July 14, 2020, 9:11pm 4

If you want to delete them, then I think that you really want to call topic.delete. If there are any dependencies, then that’ll handle them.

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