In the meanwhile I added the option to filter deleted posts on the beta version of my archive (both search page and topic page):
Search page
- Added "Only search deleted post" filter
Topic page
- Added "Only search deleted post" filter
- Added "search content"
- Added extra filters already on the search page (with/without urls, title, search only original post, fuzzy search)
For example:
https://beta.ninjastic.space/topic/5068812?only_deleted=true&sort_by=date_ascOlder posts aren't rescraped, so this is why there are only 13 results vs 308... but it's a start.
Great! If your website can archive the deleted posts from the self-moderated threads as well, then I guess we don't need to add an extra feature
within the forum only for that.
But if my bot checks the post after 30 minutes, sees it is still there, and the post is only deleted the next day, it will only check again and detect as deleted after 1 week.
That shouldn't be a problem as long as the posts are scraped and archived even before the deletion. However, what if a post is deleted within 5 minutes after it has been posted in a self-moderated thread?