Just to clarify, since the reddit post seems to be about a previous occurrence.
Are you saying you did New Config again just now?
If that is what you are saying then you basically skipped ahead and did this:
with no safety net. Not really surprising that it worked out though. Clearly invalid parity was at least part of the problem.
Unraid disables a disk when any write to it fails. After disabling, Unraid will not use the disk again for either read or write, since its contents are presumed to be invalid (the failed write) and out-of-sync with parity (which was updated as if the write succeeded). Until the disk is rebuilt, Unraid will emulate the disk using the parity calculation to get the data for the disk by reading parity plus all the other disks. It does this whether reading or writing the emulated disk. For writing the emulated disk, it continues to update parity, so those writes can also be recovered with rebuild.
In your case, since parity was invalid, the emulated disks were unmountable, so those emulated disks simply couldn't be used at all. And the contents of the actual disks were just as they were when they got disabled.
Just wanted to get this out there. I will have more to say about what you should be doing in the future.