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hehe, i've been doing this since Mikey posted his announcementTony S wrote:What's the betting lots of us scurry away to look at all the oldest threads to check if there's anything worth resurrecting !!
Mwoah, are we as community damaged if we are going to miss certain threads in this particular forum?summer_sky wrote:personally, i don't like deleting any history of any online community.
as a community, our history is one of the things that we all have built and shared with one another.
Yeah, I agree that ideally it would all be kept, but like you say, server space etc, means some pruning is necessary from time to time.summer_sky wrote:personally, i don't like deleting any history of any online community.
as a community, our history is one of the things that we all have built and shared with one another.
but, i understand that there sometimes exists the technical issue of limited space and bandwidth and stuff like that.
of course, i see the relevance of what you say, Jeroenn, and i acknowledge that you are far wiser and more practical than am i...Jeroenn wrote:Mwoah, are we as community damaged if we are going to miss certain threads in this particular forum?summer_sky wrote:personally, i don't like deleting any history of any online community.
as a community, our history is one of the things that we all have built and shared with one another.
There's an encridible amount of nonsense in here.
Fun, but nonsense. I think it's alright to delete some of it, there's loads more were it came from..We can replace the nonsens faster than Mikey can delete it.
Anywho......It's about as usefull as keeping a life long transcript of your favorite chatroom, only now you're saving it in the precious tablespace of the servers database.
whoa, i have something very special to me from my past life which was deleted into oblivion that i will use this archives website to search. thanks, Tony!!Tony S wrote: Yeah, I agree that ideally it would all be kept, but like you say, server space etc, means some pruning is necessary from time to time.
Here's an interesting website though;
http://www.archive.org/web/web.php
Lets you access archived pages from any website if they exist. See if you can find old versions of vai.com or anything else !