Random topics on my forum are coming up missing.

by Mkmd13 March 21st 2019, 1:05 am

First topic message reminder :

Hi there,

It was brought to my attention by one of my users that a topic is no longer available to view. I thought at first that the topic was just simply deleted by the user who created it, but when I logged onto the Admin account and checked the Basket section, the topic wasn't in there. So I did a site search on Google.com with the title of the topic and I get this message, "The topic or post you requested does not exist."

Then I realized that the topic in question was the very same topic that I created. I never deleted the topic and for some reason it's just gone. Doing a bit more digging, I found another topic was just gone as well, coming up with the same message when I did a site search on Google.com.

Who knows how many of these topics are gone now, these are just the two that I know of. Is there a way to get these topics back?

Link to my forum: http://uponherlips.forumotion.com/

The two topics that I know are just gone are: "New Boko877 game called "gbh"" and "Guilty Hell".

I have also attached a screenshot of what the error looks like down below.

Thank you,
Mike D.

by Mkmd13 March 22nd 2019, 10:05 am

Thanks, I'll ask my users on what they would like done. Either restore the forum back to an original state or just use the wayback archive.

by **skouliki** March 22nd 2019, 12:18 pm

why dont you transfer the thread from archives to the category you want

by **SLGray** March 22nd 2019, 7:32 pm

The reason why is that the topics are not on the forum at all. The Wayward Archives is a completely separate site.

by Mkmd13 March 23rd 2019, 2:28 am

It looks like they just want to use the Wayback Archive for the two posts. Still have no clue why this happened, but hopefully this was just some bug that doesn't repeat.

Thank you all for the help.

by **SLGray** March 23rd 2019, 2:38 am

I just can not think of an event that occurred on March 17th that would cause this. Sometimes moving, splitting, or merging topics, they disappear. It has happened on this support forum.