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…

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.

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) 2020 年7 月 14 日 15:07 2

也许你只是不想让它们被列出？这样应该能防止它们被索引。

你是想一次性操作，还是定期操作？

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