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…

We now have the can_permanently_delete setting you can use to hard delete posts and post revisions from the UI. :partying_face: You can read more about that here: [image] Introducing permanently delete post functionality Announcements When a post is deleted in Discourse,…

Discussed here: [image] How to remove post completely? support Hey there! I want to remove a post completely. For example can I delete post shown below? I don’t want to see this deleted post shown in red, even if they’re only visible to staff. (If you wondered why I want …

From reading most of the other topics regarding this problem of not having such a feature to delete something forever, I disagree and I feel it should be a core feature. A great example of why this feature would be useful is what if I had a category that was going to be completely closed because eit…

There is a setting which limits how many posts can be deleted at one time with the Delete All Posts button. The default is 15 posts. It’s here in your Dashboard: /admin/site_settings/category/users. Scroll down to delete all posts max and change that. If users have a lot of posts in a topic, it coul…

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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Topic		Replies	Views
Deleted replies and topics - are they purged from db or do they stay forever in db? Support	2	482	September 28, 2023
If I want to completely delete a post, I should just hide them? Support	13	5234	May 11, 2021
How can I permanently delete a topic with multiple posts? Support	4	156	March 7, 2025
How to remove post completely? Support	3	9041	October 25, 2023
How to delete post permanently? Support	1	193	August 6, 2024

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

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