# How can I remove post history?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-remove-post-history/50010
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [September 12, 2016, 12:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-remove-post-history/50010 "2016-09-12T12:30:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@bek](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bek)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2016, 12:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-remove-post-history/50010/1 "2016-09-12T12:30:02Z")
Hi there!
I just want to know how can I remove post history? For example my post have 6 revision. But I want to remove 5 of them. They waste my disk usage. OK, I know maybe it is not too much. But if you think about total 10k post with 6 revision that makes 60k. Depends to your editing, it could be waste too much disk for sure. Actually it is not important either it waste too much disk or not. We should be able to delete post revisions anyway in my opinion.
Thoughts?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2016, 12:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-remove-post-history/50010/2 "2016-09-13T00:31:02Z")
It is possible to hide revisions, look for the trash icon on the edit history dialog.
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2016, 12:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-remove-post-history/50010/3 "2016-09-13T00:41:53Z")
I don’t believe that is that @bek is asking. He mentioned disk usage, hiding a revision doesn’t do that, it just removes it from the client view for non-staff users.
That being said, I don’t believe this would be possible without accessing the database.
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### Author:  [@bek](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bek)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2016, 1:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-remove-post-history/50010/4 "2016-09-13T01:38:32Z")
Yes, you right. I don’t talking about hiding revisions, I want to remove them. Who actually need a dozen of revision all the time? Don’t you think this is waste of resources @codinghorror ?
Anyway, as I said before take it waste or not, we should be able to remove these revisions… If there is no feature request like this, let me make one here 👍
(Forgive me if I say something rude, I’m not native speaker)
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### Author:  [@John\_Smith3](https://meta.discourse.org/u/John_Smith3)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2019, 7:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-remove-post-history/50010/5 "2019-09-02T19:58:11Z")
Also interested in this…
I wish there was a setting to disable the ability for the public to see revisions, as in, disable the pencil…
Is there a setting to turn off the ability to review past revisions?
Mahalo!
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### Author:  [@featheredtoast](https://meta.discourse.org/u/featheredtoast)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2019, 8:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-remove-post-history/50010/6 "2019-09-02T20:08:53Z")
You’re looking for the edit history visible to public site setting. Disabling that will hide it.
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### Author:  [@John\_Smith3](https://meta.discourse.org/u/John_Smith3)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2019, 9:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-remove-post-history/50010/7 "2019-09-02T21:40:53Z")
Thanks, that did it!
It’s too bad it doesn’t remove the pencil too, but you’re right, it did disable the ability to click and view.
Mahalo!
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### Author:  [@haydenjames](https://meta.discourse.org/u/haydenjames)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2022, 12:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-remove-post-history/50010/8 "2022-04-22T12:20:47Z")
@John_Smith3
You can hide the pencil from everyone but staff by clicking the pencil icon, then hiding all the revisions one-by-one:
The `edit history visible to public` setting will also need to be set as well.
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### Author:  [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2022, 2:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-remove-post-history/50010/9 "2022-04-22T14:35:47Z")
There was never a reply to this specific question, but disk or other resources usage regarding post revisions is negligible.
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### Author:  [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2022, 5:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-remove-post-history/50010/10 "2022-04-25T05:03:26Z")
It’s rarely useful to respond to a 3 year old post in a fast moving OS ecosystem anyway. 😉
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### Author:  [@Jagster](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jagster)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2022, 7:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-remove-post-history/50010/11 "2022-04-25T07:40:16Z")
And that’s one reason why automatic three years bumping is… perhaps not that good idea?
And if someone with strong enough tools wants move this to somewhere else and close this topic, it is just fine for me (and I know you guys don’t need my permission for anything 🤣 that is just polite’ish way to tell moderators that maybe we are at off topic now)
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### Author:  [@haydenjames](https://meta.discourse.org/u/haydenjames)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2022, 9:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-remove-post-history/50010/12 "2022-04-25T09:25:08Z")
Maybe auto delete threads after x years without a reply jk😂 This is still the one persistent view on forums i will always, always disagree with.
In general use of web forums, I have found over the years soo many solutions from very old threads (and very old blog posts for that matter) but also a lot of useless bloat and dead ends within those threads…where users and mods complain about bumping and/or not using search, rather than keeping up the quality of the thread or directing it on topic.
We should welcome discourse, if the thread is not relevant, it will fall into oblivion naturally.
Oops Edit:
Regarding the original question, for anyone else who comes to this thread via search: Maybe there is, or could be, a plugin to deal with that. (Keep only the last x revisions) or an official setting within admin panel to keep only a max # of revisions. Or, to delete revisions older than x days.
If this feature is important, it may probably see the light in future. We’ll see.
Also see:
> [@Requesting new features for Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-request-new-features-for-discourse/32986):
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> bookmark This guide explains how to request new features for Discourse, check existing plans, and increase the chances of your feature request being prioritized. person_raising_hand Required user level: Anyone can submit a feature request Got a great idea for a Discourse feature? That’s fantastic! Here’s how you can share it with the team effectively. Make sure your feature isn’t already made or planned Before submitting a new feature request, ensure it’s not already available or plann…
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### Author:  [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2022, 1:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-remove-post-history/50010/14 "2022-04-25T13:06:38Z")
Oh, it’s just in case if someone has the same question in the future and comes across this topic.
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### Author:  [@Jonathan5](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jonathan5)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2022, 3:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-remove-post-history/50010/15 "2022-04-26T15:33:51Z")
> [@haydenjames](#):
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> Maybe auto delete threads after x years without a reply jk😂
Just to disinter this topic again, this is possible: [Automatically delete topics in a category if no reply within set period - #2 by RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-delete-topics-in-a-category-if-no-reply-within-set-period/167483/2). I’m sure it wouldn’t take much work to modify that plugin 🙂