Missing thread?
28-Apr-24 6:44pm
#1 John
So, this is kinda weird. I was searching for an old Record Store Day thread from a few years back. I've actually searched for it a few times in the past couple of weeks and always found it. It has a link to a store that I always forget the name of -- so I just come here, search for "record store day", find the post from a few years ago -- and I'm all set.
Today, I can't find that thread anywhere. I tried search current and archive just in case it just slipped into archive mode (since we would have just passed another year anniversary for the post), but I'm not finding it there either.
I even know a couple of key words from me that are in the thread -- so I tried searching for those words from posts from me in recent and archive posts -- and found no results.
Is there maybe some weird period between when a post goes from recent to archive where it isn't indexed for the search yet maybe?
#1 John
So, this is kinda weird. I was searching for an old Record Store Day thread from a few years back. I've actually searched for it a few times in the past couple of weeks and always found it. It has a link to a store that I always forget the name of -- so I just come here, search for "record store day", find the post from a few years ago -- and I'm all set.
Today, I can't find that thread anywhere. I tried search current and archive just in case it just slipped into archive mode (since we would have just passed another year anniversary for the post), but I'm not finding it there either.
I even know a couple of key words from me that are in the thread -- so I tried searching for those words from posts from me in recent and archive posts -- and found no results.
Is there maybe some weird period between when a post goes from recent to archive where it isn't indexed for the search yet maybe?
28-Apr-24 7:35pm
#2 benstylus
I think the archive purges old posts after a few years, so if your post is thst old it may be gone
#2 benstylus
I think the archive purges old posts after a few years, so if your post is thst old it may be gone
28-Apr-24 7:38pm
#3 John
That may be the case. If I search archives now, it only goes back to 2018. It must have just passed the threshold recently.
That's too bad that we're losing all of that history.
#3 John
That may be the case. If I search archives now, it only goes back to 2018. It must have just passed the threshold recently.
That's too bad that we're losing all of that history.
28-Apr-24 7:53pm
#4 bill
Yeah, topics with a "last post" date over 5 years get deleted. *
This happens daily, so it's a little each day.
I started doing it several years ago. I know it was announced and talked about at the time.
Reasons were database size/performance and privacy.
* There are some exceptions. NSFW topics go in 1 year. Mod-forum topics don't get deleted.
#4 bill
Yeah, topics with a "last post" date over 5 years get deleted. *
This happens daily, so it's a little each day.
I started doing it several years ago. I know it was announced and talked about at the time.
Reasons were database size/performance and privacy.
* There are some exceptions. NSFW topics go in 1 year. Mod-forum topics don't get deleted.
Missing thread?