I was trying to delete the topic “about the xxx category” because I have some categories that don’t need description.
Thanks to codinghorror and schungx i realised that it cannot be deleted but just hidden away from users which is not my ideal but it does work and allows for future use.
When trying to delete it even asks for confirmation of deletion but it does nothing, the topic just remains selected.
Wouldn’t be more user friendly if:
it’d say “you cannot delete this topic” or “this topic is linked to the description of your category and cannot be deleted”
allow deletion if description not added when creating category or simply Admin wants to delete it.
I tried only selecting the About topic (as you can barely see in the background). Deletion appears to work (without any confirmation) but has no effect.
A good reaction would be an error message stating that About topics cannot be deleted. (If multiple topics were selected, I’d go for deleting the other topics and showing an error message.)
That would be perfect
(That, plus a similar error message for trying to bulk-delete posts including the undeletable original post as per @testingsoftware.)
Leaving it like this is fine with me as I know now how the software behaves. Although it is good practice to have feedback for actions that cannot be done or not allowing users get that far.