Really Annoying Problem with Reading Old forum topics about forum reviews...
(and management). And that is that nearly every forum posted that's been posted before the late part of 2007 seems to be shut down from the admins just giving up on the forum or site, regardless of whether it may have actually being doing well! This just annoys me personally.
It's even worse when the boards mentioned are free hosted/being discussed on a free hosted forum since most of those which try (and often fail) to run a free hosted board never seem to realise you don't have to delete the board and everything with it outright just because it's not became the next big board. And there doesn't seem to be much about inactivity in the TOS of their providers...
That and the fact the Internet Archive only ever seems to have a 2% chance of having the interesting content archived means that trying to learn from topics more than a month old becomes both incredibly annoying and challenging.
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01-13-2008, 06:12 PM
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