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by gowthamgts12 1065 days ago
may be it's to avoid search engines to not scrape these threads?
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My understanding is that it was causing support problems, because people were Googling for solutions to problems with their apps (because of the Heroku diaspora, we have a lot of first-time Docker users), finding old stale threads on our forum that looked related, and then reviving them.

I think we can just `noindex` the category instead of making it private?

So the tagged posts were intentionally hidden, then.