Re: deletion of forums: problems and adjustment

Posted by Hugo <Nabble> on
URL: https://support.nabble.com/Why-are-Certain-Forums-and-Topics-suddenly-scheduled-for-deletion-tp4131246p4209500.html

Graham Perrin wrote

I'm more concerned about the less usual cases, the things that may be not easy to re-create.
(Most concerned about the targeting for deletion of roots, where children are recently active.)

This is not going to happen again. Let me explain what happened:
We measure activity based on the number of visits a forum (or gallery, blog, etc.) receives. Any visit increases the activity of the structure, independently of what is being visited (the forum itself, a topic, a post, etc.). So if you visit a post, you tell Nabble that your forum is active. If none of your nodes receive visits, then activity will reach zero after a certain period of time.

That mailing list archive was scheduled for deletion because it had very few visits (see the number of visits in your snapshot). But I agree with you that recent posts should prevent scheduling for deletion. We are discussing this internally, so we will find a solution soon. I myself have mailing list archives that I don't visit ofter and I don't want them to be removed.

Graham Perrin wrote

Re <http://n2.nabble.com/-tp4131246p4147621.html> could an XML export be easily re-imported to Nabble, to include all options (type, structure, pinning etc.) previously associated with a forum? In particular: can the original URL be restored?

The XML backup will be available in the next release. It contains all the information needed to fully restore a forum (or blog, gallery, etc.), except that the URL won't be the same.