# Topics are gone
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/topics-are-gone/41755
**Category:** Site feedback
**Created:** [30 Marzo, 2016 08:55 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topics-are-gone/41755 "2016-03-30T08:55:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@fbender](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fbender)
#### Post date: [30 Marzo, 2016 08:55 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topics-are-gone/41755/1 "2016-03-30T08:55:13Z")
I got an email reply 20h ago saying that a topic created by me was no longer accessible:
> [@tombola](#):
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> @fbender the above link seems to be non-existent or private.
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> > [@fbender](#):
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> > Since using Kitematic doesn’t work for Discourse (right now, at least), I wrote a short tutorial on how to run Discourse using Docker Toolbox: [(Superseded) Try Discourse locally with Docker Machine (ex boot2docker)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/try-discourse-locally-with-docker-machine-ex-boot2docker/33593)?
Funnily enough, I could not open that very same topic I got the email message from (it is still accessible via Google Cache: [Google Search](https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:dRy5lu-ExW8J:https://meta.discourse.org/t/kitematic-a-potentially-super-easy-way-to-test-run-discourse-on-mac/26430+&cd=1&hl=de&ct=clnk&gl=de)). Replying to that email gave me an “Your reply was sent from a different email address than the one we expected” error (first time correctly, second time I used the correct address).
I also noticed that I was granted an „out of love“ badge also 20h ago although I wasn’t even on meta for a couple of days (around the same time @codinghorror and a couple of others got his) … don’t know if this is in any way related. However, there seem to be one or more hickups recently.
Any idea what’s going on here @mpalmer ?
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### Author:  [@fbender](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fbender)
#### Post date: [30 Marzo, 2016 08:59 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topics-are-gone/41755/2 "2016-03-30T08:59:47Z")
… and I also just got a non-descriptive error when creating this topic, tried it a second time only to get an error that a topic with the same name has already been created. So I had a look at the newest topics and my topic has indeed been created the first time around. Weird.
I’m using Fx 46b5 and apart from a deprecation notice, there are no messages in the JS console.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [30 Marzo, 2016 09:08 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topics-are-gone/41755/3 "2016-03-30T09:08:29Z")
I deleted it on Jan 1st, no idea why, must have been an error on my part, just undeleted it
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [30 Marzo, 2016 09:23 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topics-are-gone/41755/4 "2016-03-30T09:23:10Z")
Well, the kitematic topic is 1000% obsolete so I deleted that one.
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### Author:  [@fbender](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fbender)
#### Post date: [30 Marzo, 2016 10:44 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topics-are-gone/41755/5 "2016-03-30T10:44:14Z")
Ah ok – did you delete or achive it? Wouldn’t it be better to just close a topic or somehow have another measure to mark a topic as obsolete? The information in the topic may still be relevant to some (even if the info is “idea is not worth investigating / obsolete”).