Clearly one thing this new interface should be capable of is allowing people to click emojis as a reaction. That is a modern and social medial as you get. Yet the only place I could do an emoji is by posting a full reply that requires a minimum of 20 characters!
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The out of the box reaction on this platform is a heart 
which didnāt seem quite right to the folks in the pilot group (they said it seemed an odd reaction on a financial site) so we added a plug-in allowing for a few different reactions (
etc. ) That promptly broke the APIs we use for the Top post pulls back to fool.com so we settled on the
We keep an eye on it - it the plug-in changes and the API wonāt break, we might add that back in.
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How do you contact Jim?
On his website there is a ācontactā link:
https://mungofitch.com/
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I donāt BELIEVE any lawyers have feelings!!!
Oh they are as human as like you and me. They have all sorts of feeling.
Hi all,
I am a refugee of these new boards as well, and was despondent when I heard the old ones were being retired. On a lark around 2010, I downloaded a copy of TMF and itās been sitting on an external drive since then, collecting dust and gamma rays. The new coding tools which have become available recently made it feasible for me to build a system to help sort through all of that old stuff. I am also embedding all of it for semantic search (~18 mil posts from 1997 - 2010), but thatās going to be a process.
Anyway, I have no idea why I didnāt think of it before reading this just now, but Iām prioritizing Mungofitchās posts for semantic search, so theyāll be available sooner than the rest. Itās very much a work in progress but it will eventually allow you to find and share anything anyone wrote here before 2011, with later dates supported as I can find them in the Wayback Machine. Hope you check it out! I posted about it here:
And the app is at https://whafa.com .
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I am a refugee of these new boards as well, and was despondent when I heard the old ones were being retired. On a lark around 2010, I downloaded a copy of TMF and itās been sitting on an external drive since then, collecting dust and gamma rays. The new coding tools which have become available recently made it feasible for me to build a system to help sort through all of that old stuff. I am also embedding all of it for semantic search (~18 mil posts from 1997 - 2010), but thatās going to be a process.
I would love to have an archive of old posts, if thereās a simple way to get them.
For those who might not be aware,
(a) Iām not dead yet : )
(b) The active conversations that used to be at fool.com have continued at shrewdm.com. For example, the Berkshire board is fairly active
ā¦as are the MI and especially the METAR boards, among others.
I post there reasonably frequently. A random Berkshire post of mine from last summer
ā¦and an update of that image from January 2026:
Jim
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For those who might not be aware,
(a) Iām not dead yet : )
Hey, itās great to see you posting here! I confess that, most successful people being un-young, I have been waiting for bad news. Glad to see itās just the stupid new TMF website 
I would love to have an archive of old posts, if thereās a simple way to get them.
āIfā and āsimpleā being the hard parts. My problem as the developer of this search app is I have never developed any kind of search app. Iām trying to imagine random people coming to find old posts, and how they might try to either find or discover them. There are so many different ways to approach it, and the simplest way (exposing a SQL-equivalent query facility) is so 2025. But I have to recognize that most people are not going to want to spend hours with my digital assistant, digging through monochrome archives and looking for treasure. So, what? Support old hyperlinks, so your old bookmarks can be easily recovered (by changing the hostname in them, for example, from boards.fool.com ā whafa.com)? Recreate the boards.fool.com launch page, so you can navigate and browse your old groups in the familiar way? Right now I have an āOn This Dayā feature, that highlights the most popular posts from TMF history on any 2/17 (if you go there today). But thatās like winning the lottery, and though I have remembered a lot of fun times with that feature, I have obviously never found what I was actively searching for there.
So, starved for feedback, I launched a half-baked system here last week, and I am now going through all the errors my baby users generated. Or Iām having Maple do it, really. I am not changing my own thinking fast enough in this new world. Wanting to look at the errors (but not yet having built a feature to do this), I started joining tables and opening logs to try and correlate errors with users, find root causes, etc. Then I thought, what am I doing all this work for with my own fingers? The AI was able to identify, catalog, prioritize and fix all 11 top bugs in the time it would have taken me to nail down a single one. Itās hard to believe what Iām using, but then it works!
(b) The active conversations that used to be at fool.com have continued at shrewdm.com. For example, the Berkshire board is fairly active
I discovered this place a few years ago and wrote the admin there (canāt remember the name) saying I have all these old posts, and would they be interested in collaborating with me to expose them all with the interface they recreated? I never got a reply, but donāt know if itās because they werenāt interested or didnāt see the message. If you know the operators over there and feel like mentioning my project, please do.
Maybe I can suggest you get a login at shrewdm.com. Post about the data availability at the board for improving the site and then Manlobbi, who runs the site, is likely to respond.
ā¦and if you like (i.e. if you think there is a way I can get your old post archive!) you can reply to any of my posts there with the āby emailā box checked. Replies to any message sent to *this* board go to the board, not the person, but at shrewdm.com it lets you get direct messages.
As for the ideal way to view old posts, personally I like it simple. Have a look at MarkWās old site, a (non functional) archive snapshot of the search page:
Jim
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ā¦and if you like (i.e. if you think there is a way I can get your old post archive!)
See, the trouble is that the raw HTML files themselves are ~1TB of data. The complete message body of every post alone is 12GB. Itās ~18 million separate files in the former case, and a PostgreSQL DB in the latter. Transmitting, processing and surfacing responsive documents in a corpus that size is hard. Even just the post metadata table (author, date, recs, etc) is 5.6GB ā likely to exceed the attachment limits of your email provider 
Thatās the reason I set out on this project to begin with, because itās such a lumbering pile of data that I decided the only way to make it useful would be to build a lot of scaffolding around it. Iām particularly excited about the semantic search, but I probably should have anticipated that anyone sufficiently interested in this data is likely to want a copy of it to play with themselves.
I could mail it you on a thumb drive; itās the least I could do to thank you for all your writing. But understand that modern retail OS file systems do not handle 18 million files well under any circumstances.
Anyway, Iāll sign up on shrewdm.com and poke around a little. Thanks for replying!