Hello,
When deleting an empty forum, it deletes all previous content, even if this has been moved to a new forum. This is very frustrating and I think is a very serious bug. It has happenned to me twice, so I decided to report it.
Steps to reproduce:
1. Start with a forum system with different forums and forum topics.
2. Move all forum nodes (topics) from a forum to another one (new or old).
3. Delete the selected forum (the one is empty now).
4. All forum nodes which were in this forum before step 2 will be deleted too!
The first time it happened to me I though I had selected "Mark topic as moved", but I know for sure I it wasn't selected the second time.
I have the comment mover module installed, but I don't think this is related.
Please let me know if there is a patch or anything for this, because now I'm afraid of deleting old forums.
Thanks.
Needs work
1.0
forum.module
The change is currently missing an automated test that fails when run with the original code, and succeeds when the bug has been fixed.
After being applied to the 8.x branch, it should be considered for backport to the 7.x branch. Note: This tag should generally remain even after the backport has been written, approved, and committed.
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It's likely this issue predates Contrib.social: some issue and comment data are missing.
Forum is approved for removal. See #1898812: [policy] Deprecate forum module for removal in Drupal 11 →
This is now Postponed. The status is set according to two policies. The Remove a core extension and move it to a contributed project → and the Extensions approved for removal → policies.
It will be moved to the contributed extension → once the Drupal 11 branch is open.