Old Forum Posts

A lot of 2006 and before posts seem to be 404

[mwarren]

I am having a ball reading the old posts, particularly about all of the search engines that came and went years ago.

However, it seems pre middle-2006 posts are 404, at least for the Alternative Search Engines forum.

Dropping the titles into Google with the site:webmasterworld.com prefix does show a result, but they are 404 and not cached.

Is this a temporary glitch or is all that history gone?

Thanks,
mwarren

[not2easy]

Hi mwarren and welcome to WebmasterWorld [webmasterworld.com]

You may get a more definitive answer in a week or so. Some recent changes have begun here bringing in new features and curating older content, much of it no longer useful. Some older advice could be problematic due to changes so it is in a process of sorting for the present. Some content is temporarily missing while some is intentionally removed. The owner, Brett Tabke is on a short break now. He can more clearly answer your question.

[phranque]

welcome to WebmasterWorld, mwarren!

i checked a few forums and it appears any thread older than today's date in 2006 is 404 despite appearing in the forum index.
i would not assume this was intentional so we should wait for brett_tabke to respond

[Brett_Tabke]

We cleared out a lot of the orphans that didn't get any search engine traffic and no page views other than the bots. I'm trying to prune the dead wood out...

If somehow my progra8ng logic went astray and I cleaned out stuff that shouldn't be let me know specifics and I'll look into getting it back.

[phranque]

orphans are irrelevant.
go to the last page(s) of nearly any Forum index.
as far as i have seen any thread in any forum that's older than 16 years old as of today is 404.
the orphans are already gone so you don't even see them in the forum index...

[Brett_Tabke]

Talked with Phranque about it and found fresh bug with older posts (pre /forumname/ posts). Should all be back now.

[mwarren]

Yep, all working. Thanks for looking into it.