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Ghost threads

 
 
Spatula Clarke
14:10 / 23.07.02
A strange thing that I've noticed before. The 'delete thread' option doesn't delete the thread, just the link to it in the main forum pages. If anyone's posted a link to a 'deleted' thread in another thread, the deleted one is still accessible through that link. Um, if you get what I mean.

Obviously, that may be a useless observation by now. Maybe Cal or yourself could fix it if you're still looking to farm the software out, Tom.
 
 
grant
15:11 / 23.07.02
You know, that quirk could lend itself to a secret board-within-a-board - simply email select people the URL for specific ghost threads....

Ahh, the SuperCollective.....
 
 
We're The Great Old Ones Now
15:36 / 23.07.02
You had to say it. Now we'll have everyone coming to the Naked Banoffee Twister sessions.
 
 
Naked Flame
15:44 / 23.07.02
you have banoffee at those twister sessions?

wow.

is it vegan?
 
 
Spatula Clarke
11:36 / 24.07.02
I'm assuming that the ghost threads quirk was a conscious decision to allow an element of reversibility in the current system ('deleted' threads still show up if you search the forum for them, so the link still exists as well as the thread).

You'd have to be pretty organised to get any secrets discussions going. Three forum moderators would need to be online at the same time so that the thread could be initiated then deleted immediately, before anyone else saw it.
 
 
gridley
13:03 / 24.07.02
But the fact that someone could be spying on your secret ghost thread makes it all the more exciting...
 
  
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