Topic: Allow deletion of an empty topic
See original GitHub issueI have tried also moving a topic from one stream to another stream (we named it archived) to combat this, but that didn’t work either 😅.
I am an admin, we only need this to work for admins really.
So this could be an entry under ADMIN ACTIONS for each topic.

TLDR: please let us delete topics 🙏
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@maxner1 try reproducing on a private stream. This seems to be a bug on private streams. @EmilyRosina thanks for reporting this.
I settled on giving “delete all messages” an eraser icon, and “delete topic” a trash icon. See below and let me know if it’s no good!
EDIT: changing verbiage to “Delete topic” instead of screenshot’s “Delete this topic”.