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Weâve got several years of history on the new boards now, and the community that you started is still here and still evolving. It doesnât matter if we donât have the old posts any more, the main thing is the community that weâve got today
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I upped my Patreon level, and I have a shiny ten pound note here which, if you squint closely at it, says âfor the buying of sean and twentynine a pint at the earliest opportunityâ
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Can I come and ill chip in a fiver
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Thank you
Just keep my old posts in a golden gilded frame
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I used to be keen on the idea of keeping the old boards, but I think itâs now been so long that I am happy for them to to go. Thereâs a lot of history on the new boards now!
Would love to see a list of the 100 most thisâd posts of all time before theyâre finally gone. Think there was one from icwar in the RATM for xmas no. 1 thread that was generally seen as number 1. Be interested to see the others though.
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Is it that time of year to put some money in the metre?
Money sent.
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Narrator: It was not contentious.
Sean, every time youâve brought this up the vast vast majority of users have told you to nuke the entire old forum. Just delete it. Weâll all be happier. 
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Yes. But Iâve also had DMs and emails. Especially from people who have lost loved ones who posted on here.
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I donât know how practical or expensive this would be, but would it be possible to offer people in that situation a hard drive with selected threads or posts that they keep going back to as a reminder of their loved ones? It would be a shame if they no longer had access to that at all.
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Agree with the above - get rid.
Also want to say thanks to @sean. For fear of sounding like a sentimental owd ghet, you probably donât realise how much these boards are a part of peopleâs lives. Yes, itâs probably 98% blathering about what weâre cooking for tea/how to cut a pizza/twats on bikes but it is an important thing. And the 2%, stuff like the MH threads, has probably had a very very significant impact on lives. Very significant
Cheers Sean
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Looks like the old boards account for a tiny percentage of traffic (0.39% of the top ten), doesnât seem like itâs worth the money, hassle or heartache
It wasnât always a great place either - the boards have become so much nicer since the move to Discourse. Whether thatâs because the new system allows for easier moderation, greater user accountability etc or because users have just grown up a bit is debatable ofc
Itâs better here and Iâm not sure much would be lost without the old board. The best bits (weird meme culture, 5-a-side, AQOS) are here already, leave the toxic sexism and all that in the bin where it belongs. Pull the statues down!
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love that one of the first replies to that social thread is bumsra asking for the thread to be deleted
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I have every sympathy for people in that situation. However maintaining an expensive board that has ceased to function is not sustaininable longer term. I donât know how Wayback machine works but is it possible to allow those people access to the archived material theyâre interested in? Or otherwise capture a few key threads for them like @blimeycharlie suggested?
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The way back machine on the Internet Archive will store everything, hopefully.
Bless you and thank you for saying this.
TBH, Iâm well aware that even a human interaction about what youâre having for tea can be as helpful to mental well-being as the MH threads. Donât ever underestimate what you all do for eachother, collectively. These boards are a manifestation of everyone who invests themselves in them, theyâd just be lines of empty code otherwise.
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not sure on how archiving works on wayback machine, but I was trying to browse another forum this weekend, not all pages of every thread were cached