Not able to delete a sub category due to Adblock plugin

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I am setting up a brand new forum and have a broken, non-viewable sub category stuck that I cannot remove because the UI will not load.

I made a sub-category for the default “Lounge” category.

I then adjusted the default permissions of the “Lounge” category so that it was viewable and usable by “everyone”, not just members with trust level 3.

Now I cannot view or delete the sub category that I had made. I can view the “Lounge” category just fine and post topics, but if I click on its sub category, I just get the spinning wheel icon and it never loads.

Because of this, I cannot delete the subcategory nor can I delete the outermost “Lounge” category.

How can I “force” delete a sub-category? Is there some way to remove it other than the UI given that the UI is broken for me?

If I click the sub-category ("Advertisements) I am left with this forever:

1062×414 23.5 KB

Actually just noticed it works in the Microsoft Edge browser for some reason but not on Chrome

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The Chromium version of Microsoft Edge? If so, we can presume that it only affects Google Chrome and not all Chromium browsers.

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Yeah, I believe it is the “Chromium” version of Edge.

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Can you post the error you see in your browser console (usually F12)?

It’s highly unusual that Edge would work and Chrome would not.

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Kind of weird but it maybe it is my ad blocker plugin or something?

I found out that if I name the channel “Advertisements” it seems to block it from loading

But if I name it anything else, it seems to work as expected, even with the recreated “Lounge” channel.

I can try turning off my ad blocker extension and seeing if that is it or not and post again, just rebuilding now.

And I can try to get the console error as well.

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Lol okay, can confirm. It was my Google Chrome “AdBlock” extension and the fact the category is named “Advertisements”.

It also turns out it doesn’t matter if it is just a sub-category or a top level category.

Not sure if this is fixable on your end and if it can be considered a #bug or not lol

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