Maybe I'm having an extreme case of delayed ignition, but it seems that a lot of content from the old pre-migration forums is completely MIA.
To be clear, I'm not referring to the separate issue of broken links in older threads (where the content may still exist, but cannot be accessed with the old URLs).
I was reminded of a certain old discussion that was had here, so I tried searching for the one keyword I definitely recall from it ("TMQ", an old software house). Nothing turns up, and google's no help either; if they ever indexed that thread in the first place, they must've pulped the long-dead URL by now.
Of course, I could be misremembering one random thread, but it's more than that. The count in my profile says 640 messages - but when I click on that for my post history, I only get 9 pages with 172 results. So there's quite a bit of other stuff unaccounted for.
IIRC, at one point the old forums were being kept up as a 'read only' archive. Is that still accessible anywhere? Or has all that content been consigned to The Eternal
To be clear, I'm not referring to the separate issue of broken links in older threads (where the content may still exist, but cannot be accessed with the old URLs).
I was reminded of a certain old discussion that was had here, so I tried searching for the one keyword I definitely recall from it ("TMQ", an old software house). Nothing turns up, and google's no help either; if they ever indexed that thread in the first place, they must've pulped the long-dead URL by now.
Of course, I could be misremembering one random thread, but it's more than that. The count in my profile says 640 messages - but when I click on that for my post history, I only get 9 pages with 172 results. So there's quite a bit of other stuff unaccounted for.
IIRC, at one point the old forums were being kept up as a 'read only' archive. Is that still accessible anywhere? Or has all that content been consigned to The Eternal
NUL:?
