I am really liking Discourse, it works really well but one thing I am struggling with is not being able to delete topics and posts permanently, like from the DB/server, not just hiding them. I don’t see why this isn’t already built in? - I want to be able to permanently delete because I don’t see wh…

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Why is it not possible to permanently delete topics or posts?

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Canapin (Coin-coin le Canapin) October 4, 2020, 2:12pm 2

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Why is it not possible to permanently delete topics or posts?

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