I was about to post this same bug. Glad to see it's fixed in 7.5.3. One clarification is it is not limited to Anonymous users. I see the same bug with normal registered users.

Rick, is there some way to remove these ghosted thread links in the forum list? I have several now.

Stress the system until it breaks. Hey.. it works for Spacecraft.. why not here?

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