Is there a way to see a list of deleted posts? (ie, when users their own posts?) Sometimes I can see these within the thread (with the message ‘post deleted by the author’) but other times, people have got in touch to say that they have accidentally deleted a post, but I can’t find it anywhere. I’…

You can view a user’s deleted posts on their profile at /u/username/deleted-posts So for example if you were an admin here you could see my deleted posts at https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot/deleted-posts

Thank you very much. Nothing shows up on that link for the users in question, so I suppose the posts have been fully deleted somehow, although I am not sure how at the moment.

Can we see the content of deleted post as an admin? currently its being overridden by following message [image]

Click the pencil icon at upper right of the post to see edit history.

Thanks, we can see the edit history of deleted topics but its not same with deleted replies, is there any way to see them?

I think its same with topics and replies/posts.

If you’re an admin you can view all deleted posts in the Latest view by using the ?status=delete query. An example would look like this: discourse.yourwebsite.com/latest?status=deleted Note, you will only see the deleted topics if you are an Admin or Moderator. If you don’t have those permissio…

Hi - riding on this thread – is there a way for admins/mods to find a list of deleted posts within a specific time period other than using this link with ‘/latest?status=deleted’? Our team’s legal counsel requires us to ensure all these posts are hard deleted within 60 days and instead of clicking …

[image] Emi: is there a way for admins/mods to find a list of deleted posts within a specific time period other than using this link with ‘/latest?status=deleted’? You would probably need to use data explorer here. A query can be crafted quite easily.

Got it, I will experiment with that. Thank you! :slight_smile:

How to find deleted posts

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sam (Sam Saffron) November 4, 2022, 7:08am 10

You would probably need to use data explorer here. A query can be crafted quite easily.

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