So last month my iPhone battery started dying by 2 PM no matter what I did. I was about to pay the Apple store $90 to swap it when I found this forum thread that was up for like 3 days before it got taken down. The OP had a whole step-by-step with pictures showing how to do it yourself for $15 from a repair kit on Amazon. I was scared I'd mess up the adhesive or break the screen but I figured what the hell. I followed it exactly and it worked... battery life is back to normal and I saved like $75. But now the thread is gone and I can't find the original anywhere even on archive sites. Has anyone else run into a really useful guide that got deleted right after you used it?
Last month I was looking up old spots in Tulsa and found this hilarious 1-star review of a bowling alley where the guy claimed the lanes were 'slicker than a politician's handshake.' It had 400 laughs emojis. By the time I clicked to share it with my buddy the next day, it was completely gone. Anybody else notice Google quietly deleting the best reviews?
I tried to look up water test results for our town's reservoir last month and found a thread that was already deleted. Managed to pull it from cache and it had actual contamination numbers from 2022 the city never released publicly. Has anyone else found deleted posts that turned out to be true?
Last month I bought a bundle of Procreate texture brushes from a small Etsy seller, paid $200, and before I got the download link, the shop was gone and the item page showed as deleted. Etsy support said they can't do anything because the shop was removed for policy violations. Has anyone else lost money on a deleted digital purchase like that?
I was just cleaning out my bookmarks folder last night and realized I had saved exactly 50 screenshots of posts that got nuked before I could even read the comments. Some were from a local sports sub where a player's cousin leaked trade rumors that got pulled in under 10 minutes. Others were from a niche hobby group where someone posted a fix for a broken tool and the mods deleted it because the brand wasn't "approved." It hit me that half these things I'll never see again unless someone else archived them. Made me wonder how many people are quietly hoarding stuff like this too... anyone else keep a dedicated folder or do you just let the deletions slide?
I was digging around for old gaming stuff and stumbled on a cached version of an AMA that got pulled like an hour after it went up. The guy claimed he worked on a canceled Half-Life project and dropped some wild details about cut levels. I grabbed screenshots before the cache updated because I knew it would vanish again. Has anyone else found deleted stuff that way before?
I've been screenshotting Reddit comments for years. Always grabbed what was visible. Turns out you can check old versions via removeddit or reveddit. Saw a post vanish from a local HVAC forum and checked the archive. The deleted reply had the actual fix. I'd been saving dead ends the whole time. Anyone else dig into the original threads before grabbing screenshots?
Posted a rant about my landlord in a city sub, woke up to 500 upvotes and it was gone an hour later. Made me realize how fast things vanish around here, anyone else get a little attached to their deleted stuff?
I was tracking a thread about local hiking trails that got nuked by the mods within 20 minutes. Managed to grab a full screenshot just before it disappeared, and it included a trail warning that's not on any official map now. Anyone else ever snag something deleted that turned out to be useful later?
I saw a screenshot of a removed post from a Bangladesh garment worker describing how a rush order for a $5 shirt meant they were working 18 hour shifts with no breaks. The next day I was scrolling and saw the original was gone, but that one image stuck with me and now I check all my clothes tags before buying. Has anyone else completely stopped shopping at a certain store after seeing something online that got scrubbed?
Spent $150 on a brand-name backpack because they promised free repairs forever. After 3 years, they deleted their warranty page and told me the policy changed. Anyone else get burned by those 'deleted' guarantees?
I was visiting family in Cleveland last month and stopped by the old Summit Avenue cemetery. There's this tall war memorial near the back that doesn't show up on any online maps anymore. Someone keeps flagging it for removal from Google Maps and I found three forum posts about it that all got taken down. Did anyone else here see those old threads about the missing monuments before they disappeared?
I was scrolling through old forum archives last night and stumbled on a thread from 2019 about a popular diner in my town. The OP posted a video of roaches crawling over prep tables during breakfast rush. The thread got removed by mods within 2 hours, but someone had saved a screenshot. I checked the diner's health inspection records and yep, they got shut down 3 weeks later. Kinda creepy how fast that stuff gets buried. Anyone else ever find deleted posts that predicted real events?
Archive link showed a guy warning about a pump and dump hours before it crashed. Got screenshots saved before the mods nuked the whole thing.
He told me to walk away from a $3,000 roof job because the homeowner had a history of not paying, but he deleted the message 2 minutes later saying he didn't want to cause drama. Fast forward 4 months and I'm still waiting on that check from the guy, has anyone else had someone delete solid advice like that?
Last month some guy posted a video of a drone hovering outside his window at 2am in our neighborhood Facebook group. The mods deleted it saying it was fake. Then I checked my own security cam footage from that night and there it was clear as day. Anyone else have local admins delete stuff that turned out to be real?
I was digging through some old screenshots on my phone last night and found a tweet that got deleted within 2 hours of posting. It was from some random account with like 50 followers, talking about a specific building inspection failure in my city. Fast forward to last week, and the local news ran a story about that exact building being condemned after a ceiling collapse. I wish I had saved the username or screenshot then, but I only grabbed the text. Has anyone else stumbled on a deleted post that turned out to be totally right later on?
I was digging through archived subreddits last night and stumbled on a post from 2019 about our local water treatment plant. The OP claimed the city was secretly bypassing filters during high demand periods. Everyone called them a conspiracy nut and the post got removed within 2 hours. Fast forward to last month when our boil water advisory hit after that flood. Turns out the guy was spot on about the backup system failing first. Has anyone else found a deleted post that ended up being totally right about something local?
I tested the exact recipe someone posted on r/KitchenConfidential right before it got nuked and it worked perfectly at the IHOP on 42nd street, has anyone else saved screenshots of deleted posts that turned out to be true?
I had a video from 2012 up where I showed how to replace the carburetor on a Craftsman mower. It had maybe 2k views total over the years. Last night YouTube sent me a notice saying it violated their spam policy and yanked it. No way to appeal either. I checked and it was just a straightforward tutorial with no links or anything. Anyone else lose old harmless videos to new rules?
Paid DeleteMyTrace dot com 40 bucks after I got doxxed on a old music forum, but they couldn't touch the thread because the site shut down in 2016 and nobody backed it up, has anyone else gotten burned by these cleanup services?