lj annoyance

[arethinn]

Deleting a filter does not change the security of the posts posted in it. The filter no longer exists for future posts, but the post itself is still viewable only by the same people it was ever viewable by. I suppose this makes some sense, not accidentally exposing posts and whatnot, but it makes it a right pain in the ass to convert posts to public if you decide you don't want to have a filter anymore, because you have to go through them one by one, a task made even more heinous by the previously-lamented lack of ability to display only the post's in one's journal that were made within a specific filter.

that was kind of a long sentence.

Comments

[starlightforest.livejournal.com]

OK. There was no way to tell that from the post itself (I did a test post), because all I saw was the lock, and when I edited the post, the security level was still "Custom..." with no group selected. This doesn't immediately parse as "Private".

[doltaghey.livejournal.com]

No, I have ti admit I've run into the same issue this week, as I have old entries that I no longer have the filter-group for. I wasn't aware they'd become private, until I checked the FAQ. That was annoying because I then had to go through each entry and put it into a new group