# Deleted posts will now be collapsed by default
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/deleted-posts-will-now-be-collapsed-by-default/17699
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [July 18, 2014, 3:18am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deleted-posts-will-now-be-collapsed-by-default/17699 "2014-07-18T03:18:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2014, 3:18am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deleted-posts-will-now-be-collapsed-by-default/17699/1 "2014-07-18T03:18:02Z")
Hey everyone - this topic is an announcement for a feature that just hit master. Also, this **only applies to forum admins/staff** - if you aren’t staff, you won’t notice any of this.
Once you update the next time, you should start noticing “`1 post hidden`” showing up on some topics, and clicking it will expand a deleted post. This is because **deleted posts will now be collapsed by default**.
Also, there will be a “Unhide Deleted Posts” button at the start of the topic, which will effectively expand all of the deleted posts at once.
Screenshot example here on Meta:
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(Note that many forums that have gone offline were deleted from that topic.)
Additionally, to further assist in reviewing a thread after the fact, if you filter a topic to a single user’s posts, the deleted posts filter will be disabled (i.e. the user’s deleted posts are shown). You can also share a link to a topic with the deleted posts expanded with your fellow admins by adding `?show_deleted=1` to the URL.
I’m sure that this will be a welcome change for many.
See also:
> [@Collapse deleted posts](https://meta.discourse.org/t/collapse-deleted-posts/13942):
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> Currently when a post is deleted it is only soft-deleted and admins/mods can still see it. This is a nice functionality which I very much like, however what I like less is that these posts still take up as much space as they did before and they get “highlighted” on top of that. This seems odd to me, deleted posts should be made less visible (to those who can still see them), not more. It’d make sense if it showed a very short notice saying “Post deleted by xxx” or something along those lines, th…
[https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-delete-a-post-completely/4472](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-delete-a-post-completely/4472)
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### Author:  [@Air\_Cooled\_Nut](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Air_Cooled_Nut)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2014, 3:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deleted-posts-will-now-be-collapsed-by-default/17699/2 "2014-07-23T15:54:27Z")
**Much better, easier to read. Thank you!**
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2014, 11:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deleted-posts-will-now-be-collapsed-by-default/17699/3 "2014-10-04T11:40:03Z")
so much betterer than what it used to be
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2014, 11:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deleted-posts-will-now-be-collapsed-by-default/17699/4 "2014-10-04T11:40:06Z")