Board Thread:Technical Updates/@comment-24006128-20200917191106/@comment-9605025-20200918021053

MisterWoodhouse,

Okay. So my wiki was converted to Discussions about a week ago and after looking around a bit, I think there should be an option to sort by newest replies rather than just newest threads. Also, the current moderation tools are definitely lackluster.

I have done nothing in my wiki's Discussions yet the insights page says I performed 3 moderation activities. What where those activities? How could I have done them if all I have done so far is look at old threads? - Thundercraft5,

I am a bit confused regarding your request for "permanent deletion". What would this accomplish that the current deletion doesn't? My understanding is the the current deletion is supposed to hide the threads from users so what is the point of going further than that?

Forum and the old comment features had "permanent deletion" not as a feature but as an artifact of how the feature worked. The messages were stored on actual wiki pages and the threads were just a nice way to display them. As such, even if a thread was deleted (i.e. hidden from users), users could still search for the pages where the messages were stored and view them that way.

Discussions and the new comment features work very differently. They do not use the wiki to store the messages but some database somewhere. Users cannot access this database so if a thread is hidden from users, there is no alternative means to see the content.