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The entire [email protected] community vanished overnight. Is all that data lost? Are there archives anywhere? Please restore the backups.

Fair enough if the community is made read-only. We can use [email protected] going forward.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

yeah it was tricky because the community name was overwritten with β€œ[email protected]”. I was only able to rediscover what the original community address was by some strange anomaly ~~of like an autocomplete in a search field or something~~. The existence of the community is scrubbed even on lemmyverse.net.

(edit) And my subscription was quietly removed. What should have happened is the subscription link in my subscription list should have remained as text (not as a hyperlink). It should have gotten a strikethrough with a β€œπŸ’€β€ next to it. That’s another #LemmyBug for the pile.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Correction-- I was just able to trace back to see how I figured out what the community address was. When I mouse-over β€œ[email protected]” on an old post of my own to the deleted community (from my profile), the underlying link is: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/[email protected]. So I think it’s only because I am not on lemmy.world myself that this was revealed. I suspect when users are on the same instance where the deletion happened, the original name may not appear. Someone correct me if I’m wrong.