Since upgrading to latest version yesterday we see things like this show up in the recommended topics list: clicking on these random looking names sends you nowhere. [Screenshot 2021-04-22 at 12.59.15] Any ideas on what happens here?

I found out that these are names of the randomly created groups as discussed here: [image] After upgrade, "/g" is cluttered with PM groups of 2 Support After upgrading to 2.7.0.beta1, forum.example.com/g now displays hundreds of groups of two, evidently formed by PMs. The “real” groups are still there, but hard to find. The private groups of 2 are visible only to admins or staff- normal users see only the real groups. Is this intentional? If so, could it be made an option, not the default? It’s not what admins normally want to see. And there’s no way to get there using the drop-list filter. Here’s a very small sample including one real group: … This topic is closed so I’m not sure where to report this issue. I don’t want to install Babble as this caused a major problem and I had to get rid of it.

@gdpelican Have you seen this? I tried on a non-production server: removing babble results in may many, maybe hundreds of tiny user groups, mostly with two people in it, some even with 1 or 0. And they show up as recommended topics. Reinstalling babble makes them disappear. However, I had a good reason to uninstall it so reinstalling is not a wtorkaround for me. (and besides this would be a strange way to go about something like this imo).

Pavilion helps out with maintaining this plugin. I’m sure one of the team will help you with a guide to how to fully uninstall it. Just be patient, we are very busy. Please post something here: Pavilion

Weird looking non-existent topics in recommended topics due to babble plugin

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) April 23, 2021, 4:25am 3

Yeah, this looks like a side effect of the Babble plugin.

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Weird looking non-existent topics in recommended topics due to babble plugin

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