LifeOfDreamer:
So all the eras and all the history is important.
So my guess is there is a way…just hoping some from TMF will shed some light on how that process now would work?
While I get why it’d be a hassle to migrate everything to the new boards, cutting access altogether is beyond me too. Takes minimal resources to keep a static site up and running.
Here’s the closest thing to an explanation that I’ve found. A recent reply to a question asked 28/10:
Knighted, sorry I did not find your post sooner.
As you now doubt by now know, the old boards have been moved to the new community platform. Any posts from active boards have been migrated. Any posts from archived boards have been lost. I believe any bookmarks to posts on the old boards are no longer valid. The intent was to take down the old boards completely and reclaim resources.
Fuskie
Who expects this will not be what you wanted to hear but he thinks you deserved a response even if too l…
Another good thread is here (1/11):
Any formal word on their shutdown? Still on for Nov 1, or do we have more time?
–Peter <== still frantically saving old threads for posterity
And here (9/10):
I know several people have asked you to keep the archives around, well, forever, apparently without much result.
I would ask you to do it only for one reason: on the Fool’s 100th anniversary, some writer somewhere will want to go back to the beginning and scrape some of the earliest posts, and perhaps to some of the other significant investing events that happened along the way - and how can they do that if everything disappears?
For instance it will be hilarious to see me talk about the AOL-T…
And here (22/9):
The datahelper search tool and even google with the site: option will break, and millions of brilliant investing data points and research reports would be lost.
And …
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