Whenever you delete a post from micro.blog, I’ve seen that it is not actually removed.
I’ve also checked for the uploads and apparently they are deleted, but after around 24h or so.
Apparently there’s a bug (I hope) or something that keeps the posts on the micro.blog servers even after the user decides to delete them…
Example #1
I’ve uploaded an image on 2021-11-16 at 17h52 :
==> https://podiboq.micro.blog/uploads/2021/bcb9230142.jpg
I’ve deleted the image at 2021-11-16 at 17h55
2021-11-17 at 19h15 the image is still available (yes, it’s an image with the text “DELETED”
)
The image is not removed immediately, but apparently, after a long period, it will finally become inaccessible. So, ok… I think this works, but it takes a long time.
Example #2
Here are some posts that are no longer theoretically on my micro.blog because I’ve deleted them few weeks ago (at least they do not appear on the blog or in the “admin panel”) :
I cannot add too many links, so sorry about the weird format
- h ttps://podiboq.micro.blog/2021/05/08/what-a-beautiful.html
- for this one I’ve removed the image from the uploads panel - the image seems to be gone, but not the post
- h ttps://podiboq.micro.blog/2021/09/12/232923.html
- h ttps://podiboq.micro.blog/2021/09/23/years.html
Example #3
I’ve then tried the same thing on my test micro.blog and I’m having the same behavior. After deleting all the posts and all the images, the posts I’ve deleted yesterday (on 2021-11-16) are still available :
- h ttps://podiboq-test.micro.blog/2020/11/24/welcome-to-your.html
- h ttps://podiboq-test.micro.blog/2020/11/24/test-simple.html
- h ttps://podiboq-test.micro.blog/2021/11/16/deleted-post-number.html
- h ttps://podiboq-test.micro.blog/2021/11/16/140524.html
- h ttps://podiboq-test.micro.blog/2020/11/24/test-long-post.html - the image seems to be gone, but not the post
Now here’s the long story, explaining how I’ve found out about this issue :
Some time ago I’ve had a bad day, and I’ve decided to remove from my micro.blog some posts that I considered more personal.
Later I’ve regretted doing this, so I contacted the support to ask if I can restore these posts. The answer was no, but Manton gave me some alternatives :
I’ve found a backup I’ve made some time ago, I imported it, but I thought nothing happened (got no success / error message). Few days/weeks later, I’ve seen that it actually worked, but I found myself with a lot of duplicate posts. Oooops…
So I went on the « Posts » page, and I’ve started to delete the duplicates.
It is at that moment that I’ve seen that the posts I was deleting weren’t really deleted and that they were still available on my micro.blog when accessing the original link…
So, I went to the Wayback Machine, found a post that I have deleted back then and when I’ve opened the link I was very surprised to see that the post is actually still on my micro.blog. Sort of, because I can access it via its link, but not visible neither on the blog pages, archive page or in the admin panel, « Posts » section.
