Deleted hints reappear

#1

This morning I confirmed what I’d vaguely suspected before: 2-year-old hints that I deleted yesterday have reappeared on the same ancestor’s profile page. I deleted them again, so we’ll see what happens.

While I’m on the subject, I’ve also come across profile pages in my tree that have large numbers of “archived” hints. I don’t think I’ve ever archived any hints since the earliest days of my account, when I archived two or three just to see how it all worked. So I’m wondering if perhaps hints I deleted are being archived instead, obliging me to delete them again.

In case it matters, “Show archived” is unchecked in my Hints & To-Dos list setting. Also in case it matters, I do create To-Dos quite often. I don’t know if that has any effect on the Hints function.

#2

I’ll review the hint archive / deletion code. I can’t completely delete a hint - if I do, it shows up again the next time hints are requested, as you are seeing. But when a user deletes a hint, it’s supposed to go into a “deleted” mode and stick around but become invisible. Maybe that broke somewhere along the way. I’ll check into it.

#3

Can you give me the URL of the person that you’re suspecting has hints showing up again, and the source (name) of the hint that showed up again? I just tested hints, and I got what appeared to be the same hint back, but it was actually a hint to a different record in the same collection. If you’ll send me the URL of the person with the re-appearing hints, I’ll send you a list of all of the hints (including the deleted ones) so we can verify whether the same hint re-appeared or a hint to a different record in the same collection.

#4

I’m gonna have to wait for another instance of the seemingly-reappearing hints. The one I was thinking of when I posted this, I deleted the hint a second time and it has stayed deleted. I’m bookmarking this for when I find another example, though.