Topic replies referencing other topics, are still visible in the gutter of the referenced topic after the referring topic reply is deleted

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

I just tested this on try.discourse.org.

1. created a new user and logged in

2. created a new reply with a link to an existing topic in it, like so:

   

3. refreshed the page for the existing topic; the backlink shows up at the bottom of the post

   

4. All is an expected; backlink appears in the linked target post. As an admin, I deleted the reply:

   

5. I then refreshed the page as the regular user… and yep, indeed, I can repro the bug, the link is still there even though the topic with the link has been deleted.

   

Can we get this bug assigned this coming week @eviltrout? Looks like a new regression unfortunately … not sure what all we need to do to deal with the data cleanup either. If it went out in the release we need to backport as well.

Thanks for the report @Serdar and apologies for the regression.