The main board page,
https://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php
is displaying "Archived Boards" as having 0 posts and 0 topics, but click on it and see the sub-boards have many posts/topics. It makes it looks like "Archived Boards" is empty.
The board itself has zero posts and zero topics; the count is technically correct. The issue is that the 'count child boards' option in admin is turned off - I don't see this as a bug personally.
In any case, the content of the archived boards is *archived*, it is of little relevance to most people.
On that note can admins move board 253 to archived as well please, it has long since served its purpose.
Ok so this one: https://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=565843.0
SMF does count direct children like Arantor said, but it's not enabled on this forum.
The setting is located in Admin > Forum > Boards and Categories > Settings > Count sub-board's posts in parent's totals.
I see. While we're on the topic, I think it would be nice if the Test Board's description said how often it's purged. It says I can "edit other people's posts" but I can't do that if there are no posts ;)
There's no specific time, it's manually done after a couple days.
Or people do it because they have the power and are bored.