Testing discourse in local development, from GitHub - discourse/discourse: A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple. · GitHub master with ./bin/docker/boot_dev --init ./bin/docker/rails s I get an error when trying to delete a topic as per the API docs with: $ curl -X DELETE "http:…

I worked it out. It turns out that the automatically created first topic in the category, in this case “About the Docs category”, can’t be deleted for some reason. I can delete all the others fine, which is all I need.

Invalid Access when attempting to delete the About This Category topics

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Stephen (Stephen) February 12, 2019, 1:33pm 3

Correct, the about topics are special and are used for things such as the category description.

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