The Dark One Posted March 30, 2012 Report Share Posted March 30, 2012 Yeah, this is pretty much here because I'm too lazy to look for a better place for it. Anyways, pretty much the main reason I occassionally stroll by this site is to read old posts for nostalgic purposes. I'm noticing now, that "reviewing member content" or whatever they call posting history now, seems to be limited to a date sometime in 2010. What gives? Did the site get rid of its records to save some server space? Or am I just being a dunce and not understanding how to operate the search function? Bee tee dubs, howdy yall. It's pretty funny to come back here and see not just the incredibly influx of new members and outflux of the ones I knew, but the promotion of those members I remember as cute little tykes to the honorable pedestal of honorable respect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frunk Posted March 30, 2012 Report Share Posted March 30, 2012 The software this forum uses has changed 3 times. It was originally phpBB2, for the first 8 months or so as I recall, before it was converted to MyBB. Then in 2009, (I think it was 2009, anyway - I honestly haven't been "active" since early 2008), we moved to IP.Board. Anyway, each time you change software, a conversion takes place, but like all content conversions it's done automatically and is far from perfect. Honestly I don't know exactly why search doesn't go the whole way back, but I presume it's because the current search method isn't compatible with the old content, or something... Here is an example, the last page of the General forum: [url="http://forum.yugiohcardmaker.net/forum/5-general/page__prune_day__100__sort_by__Z-A__sort_key__last_post__topicfilter__all__st__14250"]http://forum.yugiohc..._all__st__14250[/url] Notice how some threads are from 2008, while others don't have any date at all? Some say -1 replies and are made by "guests". This is an example of conversion gone wrong. You need to go forward, in this case, four pages, to find the actual oldest content, from the golden age. YCMaker's "Merry Christmas" thread from 2006. Ah, the good old days... [url="http://forum.yugiohcardmaker.net/forum/5-general/page__prune_day__100__sort_by__Z-A__sort_key__last_post__topicfilter__all__st__14130"]http://forum.yugiohc..._all__st__14130[/url] To find anything in particular, you either need to crawl through the hundreds of pages of threads, or, if you can remember it, Google the thread title or something written in the thread. Anyway, welcome back, I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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