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If you reply to a topic, the last-post information for the forum is updated. Thats what it should, but not, when the topic is not approved sofar. (You also need to keep that in mind, when "reseting" the last-post, after the last-topic was deleted)

That happens quite a bit on the support forum here. Just today Brf replied to a topic that had not yet been approved and when I clicked on his last post icon from the index page, I got the "topic does not exist" message.

Gah, replying to unapproved topics should be forbidden... an unapproved topic is not visible at all, the last post info should never be updated if the last post is unapproved.

I think we implemented a change recently where a reply to an unapproved topic made the topic approved and the first approved message being the start of the topic. I could be wrong here though and the topic is still invisible (then the last post info should not be updated and the topic not reachable and not visible by normal users).

I'm using SVN rev9447 so the current one, and it is not like you said AcydBurn. The problem still exists

For 3.2.x we need to find a better solution - there it should be possible to add comments and also add posts to unapproved topics/posts...

Why do we not want to allow replies to the topic if it is not approved? A moderator might want to reply to it for some reason and have a hidden discussion in it.

It shouldn't be difficult to fix. Just don't update anything on the forums table if the post is being made to an unapproved topic. Once the topic is approved then go through and count only the approved posts in the topic (another bug), and check to see if the last post in the topic is newer than the last post recorded on the forum.