I have been wondering where many original topics have disappeared to. For example the original threads on Global Warming in the Global Threats area and other topics dating back to the very beginning are no where to be found.
I have been noticing that pruning takes place without records of actions other than 'sometimes' in the title and I think there is a loss of continuity due to this. Anyway as a Guardian this is the kind of issue I feel I am supposed to raise when I see it.
We need a better archival system and any thread that has a considerable contribution to it by multiple, or even singular members should not be 'canned' without review. Many old topics from the BJKlein forum and early Imminst could be archived under the Imminst section and referenced for content without having to duplicate many hours of effort. Was this loss of content intentional or consequential and is the present leadership aware it has been going on?
Some lost content I see has reappeared, photos for example (good work on that) but I am curious about whole threads, like the original ones on global warming and some political discussions that don't appear in the search function or a scan of the forum area.
It is bad enough that the organization of many discussion themes is haphazard and that pinning a topic is no longer very useful but the search engine still finds too much and too little.
By the way, what happened to the short lived experiment with similar thread search window?
One minute is was back and then after the crash it was gone.
