Locking threads??

[Laird]

You're not a moron... it's pretty confused, but mostly it was resolved in the end - at least when it comes to post numbers.

I figured this out. Typoz, you had turned off visibility of post deletion notices when Chris reported a glitch. That was before we created the hidden politics and conspiracy theory forums though. When we created the group that could access those, its option for deletion notice visibility was set on, so members of that group could then (and still can) see post deletion notices, whereas those who were not members of that group (and not admins either) couldn't. This meant that admins and members of the politics/CT group saw one set of post numbers whereas non-admins who hadn't elected to join the politics/CT group saw a different set, because deleted posts were hidden from them.

I use the past tense because I've toggled on the visibility of deletion notices for all users, including guests, so that post numbers should now be consistent between everybody, whether logged in or not; member of the hidden forums group or not; admin or not.

I'm not sure about post numbers being consistent.

Example:
https://psiencequest.net/forums/thread-i...7#pid53117
When logged-out this is a link to #490 (which is particularly awkward as in the text of that post, a different post is mentioned and the reference #490 is stated).

(I see different numbers depending on whether or not I'm logged in, so that any of #483, #490 or #498 may be one of the posts under consideration here!)

[Laird]

I'm not sure about post numbers being consistent.

Example:
https://psiencequest.net/forums/thread-i...7#pid53117
When logged-out this is a link to #490 (which is particularly awkward as in the text of that post, a different post is mentioned and the reference #490 is stated).

(I see different numbers depending on whether or not I'm logged in, so that any of #483, #490 or #498 may be one of the posts under consideration here!)

Great catch!

It looks like the "Can view deletion notices?" setting got accidentally caught up in a commit of 7 April, 2021, which removed visibility of redundant settings from the "Guests" usergroup, and turned it off in the database during the upgrade script.

It seems that that commit was then incorporated into MyBB version 1.8.27, released around 20 June, 2021.

I've turned it back on via the database + a cache refresh.

As far as I know, everybody, in every usergroup, including Guests (i.e., those not logged in) should be seeing deletion notices for deleted posts. Please let me know if this is not the case for you.

I'll put a link to this post in my TODO list so that at some point I hopefully get around to pointing this issue out on GitHub.

Looks consistent now for me, thanks @Laird.