Okay - I understand the issue now. It has to do with the interaction of deletion and changes to the admin menu of topics which don’t refresh until the page is reloaded. This is a bug (albeit it a very minor one).
To repro:
- Visit an existing Topic (can be a PM) with an account with moderator/admin privileges
- Delete the Topic
- Note that the option to
Make Public Topic / Make Personal Message
remains visible
- Note that the option to
- Refresh the page
- Note that the option to
Make Public Topic / Make Personal Message
is no longer present
- Note that the option to
- Undelete the Topic
- the option to
Make Public Topic / Make Personal Message
remains absent until the page is refreshed
- the option to
It seems like a page refresh is needed after deletion / undeletion of a topic. Perhaps this should be included in the action of topic deletion/undeletion?