Authored community discussions are no longer listed or searchable after removing non-primary email from account

[mootari]

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Bug

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Earlier today I removed an old company email address (which was never my primary address) from my GitHub account.

Just now I noticed that none of the community discussions I had authored are listed or searchable anymore. Example for https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/201501:

• by author
• by phrase
• in category

All of my created discussions are still listed in my profile timeline:

The email removal being the cause is just a guess, but it seems the most likely by far.

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[karmaxexclusive]

This does sound like unexpected behavior. Since the discussions are still visible in your profile timeline, it suggests the content hasn't been deleted but may no longer be associated correctly with your account for search and author indexing.

A few things you could check while the GitHub team investigates:

Verify that the email you removed was fully verified before it was removed, and that your remaining primary email is verified.

• Check whether the discussions are still visible when viewing them in an incognito/private browser window or from another GitHub account to rule out a caching issue.

• Confirm whether the problem affects only community discussions or discussions across all repositories.

• If you have links to specific discussions, include a few examples (as you've done) along with the approximate time the email was removed. That may help GitHub correlate the timing with any account-index updates.

If the issue started immediately after removing the secondary email and is reproducible, it does seem worth treating as a potential indexing or account-linking bug rather than expected behavior.