Oh phooey... from the way #1 sounded, it seemed like it was on a per forum basis... that would be REALLY helpful for what I do!

So Morgan, you'd want to only enable auto-close for certain specific forums?

Yeah but maybe I'm an anomaly. So, I have trading post type forums... having those auto lock after X period of time would be a great way to weed out stuff that's just not relevant anymore. Whereas the other forums, it's cool with me if people bring up old threads and ask questions on them as they are just for typical conversations. Additionally... just thought of this... is there a way to automatically filter out stuffed that's locked? Thanks! Hope you are well!

I'm delighted the auto-close feature has arrived as it's something that's been at the top of the wish list for some time. However, I think there's a problem. I enabled auto-close for posts with no activity after 30 days. what has happened is that it has closed every single topic in the forum. Unchecking the box has not re-opened them. So... I now have many hours of going through and opening up each thread manually. Not very happy about that. Is this a bug and is there a way of opening up the...

Hi Richard, Yep, that's a bug. It will be fixed tomorrow. In the meantime, you can reopen topics in bulk in the Manage Content section of your control panel. Use the "Open: Accept New Comments" option. Hope that helps! Brian

Thanks Brian, can you be more specific. I can only find search, mod rules, mod queue and spam under Manage Content. Thanks

Under Manage Content -> Search Content, search for the topics you want to re-open. Select the topics (across all pages, if that's what you want), and then choose the "Open: Accept New Comments" option in the action dropdown at the bottom of the page.

OK yes, I get it. Thanks Brian. Please keep us up to date on the bug fix - I don't want to do that again! ;-)

Hi Richard, That bug should be fixed now, so you should be able to safely re-enable the auto-close feature again. Please let us know if you spot any other issues! Thanks, Brian

Just to give you an update - All went without any hitch I can see. Thanks Brian.