Last modified: 2014-09-04 13:47:23 UTC
If a topic is hidden/deleted/suppressed, and you don't have the rights to unhide or restore it (e.g. you're not logged in), then you don't see the topic box at all. This is great on a Flow board, spam is invisible for people who can't reveal it. But if you follow a link to a flagged topic and don't have the rights, you see an empty page containing just <Flow board name in h1> It looks broken. If you have the rights, then you see <topic title in h1> "This topic was started on <Flow board name>" gray link line [This topic was deleted by Admin] topic box I think users without rights to unhide/restore should see something like "Flagged content" as h1 "This flagged topic was started on <Flow board name>" gray link line the details will change if we add a crumbtrail from topic back to post.
The WMF core features team tracks this bug on Mingle card https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/flow/cards/725, but people from the community are welcome to contribute here and in Gerrit.
Viewing a deleted topic, as a non-admin, gets an error page: eg. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Ryqpaslvstkeunf1 gives: PHP fatal error in /usr/local/apache/common-local/php-1.24wmf16/extensions/Flow/includes/Templating.php line 231: Argument 1 passed to Flow\Templating::getContent() must be an instance of Flow\Model\AbstractRevision, null given, called in /usr/local/apache/common-local/php-1.24wmf16/extensions/Flow/includes/Block/Topic.php on line 490 and defined but an admin sees the normal collapsed white topic box. (possibly related to bug 67595 ?) Reported at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Rz7mob6cmup1bosc
This no longer causes a fatal error. If I follow the link Quiddity posted in #c2 I can see the heading error and it tells me I don't have permission. I don't think there is anything left to do here!
