Link to the Old Forums

[+Jamie Z]

I was going to refer to an old post back in the old forums, but I noticed the link is no longer there. Is it moved? Is it gone? Am I blind?

 

Jamie Z

[+jhwf44]

hmm...I don't see it either

 

jhwf4

[Elias]

I can't slip anything past you guys!

 

I was working on the forums today and thought I'd remove that link as it seemed unnecessary to keep it. I was hoping to retire the old site after a while as well. If the old forums and the link were useful to people, I can certainly add it back.

 

Here's the link to the old forums page: http://forums.Groundspeak.com/cgi-bin/Ultimate.cgi?action=intro

 

-Elias

[+Jamie Z]

Elias,

 

The old forums are only mostly unnecessary. On rare occasion, I'll go back to check something out in the old forums, and every once in a while, someone (Markwell) will post a link referencing something we discussed a year ago.

 

Of course I don't know how much precious disk space the forums occupy, but I say keep the link.. and it will probably keep its usefulness for at least another year or two.

 

Jamie

[+Markwell]

Actually, the point of keeping the old forums is only valid for those forums that didn't convert well - and there are some. On odd occassions, the data got truncated and only a portion of the posts converted.

 

What I'd like to actually see is a point where if there was a thread that exists in the current forums as a result of a conversion - that this thread at the top has a link to the original thread.

 

IMHO, that's how it should have been done at conversion time. So please - keep the old threads somewhere.

 

Disk space? As Dogbert would say, "Bah." Take a peek at this history of disk space page. Current going rate for hard drive space is 40 gigs for $128.88 - that's about $3.71 per gig, and 2.7MB for 1¢. Five charter members would pay for enough server space to hold the forums x10 I believe.

 

Markwell

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