# Can't delete topics?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-delete-topics/156680
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [July 3, 2020, 9:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-delete-topics/156680 "2020-07-03T09:23:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![sok777](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@sok777](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sok777)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2020, 9:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-delete-topics/156680/1 "2020-07-03T09:23:41Z")

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Hi there,  
I’ve installed Discourse for the first time using Docker on a VM via Google Cloud’s compute engine.  
Everything is running smoothly (as far as I can see) and I’ve managed to set up the email too and it works fine.  
I’m now trying to delete posts both with an admin account and a user account I created (via incognito) and I keep getting a 504 error.

Nothing in the log, but console shows the following:

 ![WhatsApp Image 2020-07-03 at 10.17.00](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/3/6/369e18bf3cc18684f87a16081d0fd5c4c2b4db55.jpeg)

Any thoughts?

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### Author: ![sok777](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@sok777](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sok777)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2020, 1:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-delete-topics/156680/2 "2020-07-03T13:52:42Z")

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**UPDATE:**  
Ok this is even weirder.

I have tested it on different browser and with different users, and it still did not work.  
I have then tested it on my phone, and it didn’t work either. I then attempted it again using 4G on my phone (instead of WiFi) and it worked!

I now tried it again on my PC using VPN and it worked. So it seems that my ISP is blocking the request to the server?!

Any ideas?!?

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### Author: ![Steven](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/steven/32/187890_2.png) [@Steven](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Steven)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2020, 2:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-delete-topics/156680/3 "2020-07-03T14:14:23Z")

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How big were these topics? The server can’t manage deleting very big topics or too many posts at once. I had this issue once, and deleting smaller blocks of posts worked fine

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### Author: ![sok777](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@sok777](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sok777)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2020, 2:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-delete-topics/156680/4 "2020-07-03T14:15:42Z")

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thanks! It was just a single post topic.