# Merging very long posts removes them

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/merging-very-long-posts-removes-them/183597>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [March 17, 2021, 10:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/merging-very-long-posts-removes-them/183597 "2021-03-17T22:28:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![techAPJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/techapj/32/342990_2.png) [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2021, 1:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/merging-very-long-posts-removes-them/183597/11 "2021-04-01T01:23:23Z")

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We’ll now show an error bootbox instead of failing silently and will not soft-delete posts, via:

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/c478ffc6620cdc83c2a7e830b05b7cb7354663f3](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/c478ffc6620cdc83c2a7e830b05b7cb7354663f3)

Thanks for reporting this issue @ggurbet 👍

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