Posts may lose value over time, and Slab provides two tools to declutter: archiving and deleting.

Archived posts become hidden or deprioritized in most places but are still accessible and searchable, while deleted posts are permanently removed from Slab.

Archived posts have a gray banner at the top, which provides a warning to the reader.

While archived posts are usually hidden from the UI, it's still possible to discover them.

You can view archived posts on a topic page by using the filter in the top right-hand corner.

Within search, you can use the is:archived search facet to find archived posts.

If your post is in a topic, you can also archive it from the topic page:

To unarchive a post from the topic page:

You can also mass archive posts using the Content Map:

To delete a post:

If your post is mentioned in other content, such as another post, topic, or group, the modal will display a list of backlinks that refer to your post.

Deleting a post will not automatically remove those mentions, and attempting to access a mention of a deleted post will result in an error. To maintain the accuracy of your content, we recommend either replacing or deleting the mention from the content listed before deleting the post.

Using the Content Map, you can delete multiple posts at once: