The result was exactly what I hoped it would be - "the icon stays the same even though the character is gone now".

What happens if the author deletes the account?

@Arcane: Hi! I am a big fan.

The site gets confused, apparently. The "number of posts" number reported on this page is short by one, and the Recent Posts page showed the last comment as being from Kappa instead of you (even though it reported the correct "number of posts". So it seems the comment disappears for only some purposes, but not others.

@Sonata when you say:
> "number of posts" number reported on this page is short by one"
do you mean the number of posts on the Recently Updated page, or the number in the bar on this post's page? The number on the Recent Posts page includes the top post and the replies bar on the post page only counts replies (because the top post is always shown regardless of page). I haven't actually decided which count I prefer.

The user on the Recent Posts page is last updated by not last post, so it can include post edits, but I don't see any from Kappa sooo no idea what happened there. will dig.

I mean where it says e.g. "Total: 19" near the bottom of this page.

...It's possible I got confused by seeing "Kappa" in the Author column.

I dislike the idea of changing the "Total: 19" (presumably now 20) on this page because I want it to be relevant to the pagination, so I will probably change the Recent Posts page to display Replies: 0 (and up) rather than Posts: 1 (and up).

That's very possible, but! Even if that is the case, it is useful UI feedback that the two are confusable and I should figure out how to fix it <3