Was there an old article purge, and I just missed it?

WilloWisp · Post by **WilloWisp** » Sat Aug 02, 2008 6:16 pm

I recently started digging around on this message board, looking for some older threads I remembered, but somehow couldn't find them. Did we lose a bunch of threads in one of the prolonged downtimes FBC suffered a few months back?

WilloWisp · Post by **WilloWisp** » Sat Aug 02, 2008 6:57 pm

Robotman wrote:For a while, the board has been set to automatically "prune" old threads, so posts older than a few years (depending on the particular forum) have been deleted.

I hope pure text can convey the sense of dread in my voice here:

Deleted? Forever?!

noidguy · Post by **noidguy** » Sat Aug 02, 2008 9:32 pm

I don't know what the purge rules are, but it looks to me like everything in the Reports forum is still there. The first post goes back to May of 2002.

WilloWisp · Post by **WilloWisp** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 12:29 am

Just as an example, I Magnus once posted multiple threads with the title "FEMBOT FANTASY," of which only part 10 currently remains.

http://www.fembotcentral.com/viewtopic.php?t=3165

Assuming that pbpBB numbers every thread, and starts at 1, the earliest thread I can find is:

http://www.fembotcentral.com/viewtopic.php?t=5

Posts 1-4 don't exist anymore, nor do posts 6 & 7. After that point, it's pretty hit-and-miss. I'm not coming across any old posts that don't show up in the normal forum view, either (something I was hoping might happen, but didn't).