I know that each topic has a timer that allows deletion in a certain amount of time. But how to do this with ALL topics and posts older than 2 months? And just leave one or another topic that I want? By the way, how do I know which files (Photo, video, audio etc) my members are uploading on the forum? And how to delete everything at once?

I would guess the reason could be exacly same why chat has such time limit. All content is not ment to live long. In this case I assume it has something to do with lack of hard drive space.

I asked a similar question: [image] Automatically delete topics in a category if no reply within set period Support I’ve set up RSS Polling and would like to be able to automatically delete the RSS topics after a while if nobody has replied to them. Would it be possible to have this done automatically? Thanks. The answer was: [image] Delete Unreplied Topics plugin Plugin The Delete Unreplied Topics plugin scans designated categories for topics that exist over x days which did not get any replies, and deletes them. This keeps your forum clean of topics that did not gain any traction for whatever reason. Settings: delete_unreplied_topics_categories the categories to work on delete_unreplied_topics_days the amount of days before a topic without any posts will be deleted delete_unreplied_topics_dry_run a safety net to test and make sure the plugin will not delete… It may be that this plugin could be changed slightly to serve your purpose. It wasn’t such an odd request as the final comment was: [image]Automatically delete topics in a category if no reply within set period This is one that I think should maybe be in core @sam as a category level setting.

I think I was confused by the ‘all’. Topics with no replies, or topics in certain categories does make more sense. Though reading some of the OPs other recent topics, it does seem to be about storage space as @Jagster says. I don’t think using the soft-delete options in the UI would work for that as everything would still be there in the database (I think even images/media have to be removed from the post before soft-deleting to be marked for tidying up by the sidekiq job?) I think @nathank had a similar issue some time ago, and had to use the rails console to deal with it? That may be a little advanced for an everyday user though.

Wouldn’t this harm SEO or is that not a concern? History is your hook into internet search. Far better to migrate to a bigger server with more space?

No server space, and no money to buy more space. In my country the dollar is very high. Also, something very annoying happens when new members of my forum comment on a topic with more than 1 year of existence.

It depends. It is much harder to get some SEO value fo forum topics. It looks like Google values heavily the very first post, not following answers. But the first one quite often is not that… good in the meaning what people are searching for. Sure, something like ServerFault, StackOverflow etc has high value, but those are so big. And even then I’ll get more hits to more bloggish sites. But even here is a lot of topics with zero SEO value, because those aren’t reflecting asked questions on side of Google. My forum is really small, but I’m using it quite often similar way than WordPress. I had few diary type topics, but that didn’t work SEO wise. When I started totally new topic everytime I had longer explanation, or story, I got a way better response from Google. How often old topics get views here? Not too often and that’s why we have autobump — and in most of time bumping fails because three years old topics are more or less so outdated. If we stay in SEO value this will happend an visitor did google search and got a topic here that visitor read, doesn’t get an aswer and bounces visitor will continue to next hit google sees it as un-helpful hit Please, don’t get me wrong. That is an universal question, not Discourse dependent. But it means one or two things: content itself doesn’t give anyking SEO value and most of content in the Net is dead weight. What we should do in the perfect world would review old content every year, save useful ones and delete every topics and posts without any extravalue. Plus everything that have been unvisited. Same thing what we should do with private files and images on our devices. But we don’t do cleaning, but we will buy more and more space. No one will do it. Way too much work. Quite few would review content even if system would ask shall this and that saved or deleted. That’s why there is a huge risk where high value content will be erased just because of some time limit. So — that poor admin will pay extra every month for storing old, rusted and dusted content. But it has nothing to do with SEO. SEO means only for content that is used, someway.

[image] Jakke Flemming: em nada a ver com SEO. SEO significa apenas para conteúdo que é usado, de alguma forma. What is SEO? I couldn’t translate this

The dollar in my country is very high. I can’t pay more server to keep old content. Is there a way to automatically delete this? If not, how do I delete content older than 3 months?

Those acronyms sucks :wink: Search Engine Optimization. Everything we should do to help Google showing our content before other hits. It has expanded to include very abstract value how Google is ranking every content.

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JammyDodger October 13, 2022, 5:50am 2

I am not sure why you would want to do this? It seems an overly destructive action for a forum?

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