Again You can try the search function and see if you can find the old thread. I did it on one and it worked after responding it brought it back to the top. If not you may search and ind it and copy and paste it into a new thread ???

BigKahuna...if a thread is still on one of the 67 pages, what you suggest will work...searching & bumping. However, I think SeaDuck is talking about threads that have long since dropped off but, up until this most recent "maintenance", were still available if you had the URL. Now, though, even with the URL you often cannot find old threads and using Google, even w/cache, to find them doesn't always work...and fewer and fewer will be available as time goes on.

It looks like iVillage has taken a huge step backwards recently in this regards...maybe it is time to jump ship (as Marcolo has suggested on another thread) and go elsewhere...but I'd rather not b/c of all the other Forums and familiar "faces" here...

None of the threads on my developing kitchen plans are available anymore, even though I had them bookmarked. This is very irritating.

The 67 or so pages of threads available only go back about 2-3 months. Is GW going to delete threads after only a few months? I've never heard of any forum that is managed that way.

Are the other forums in GW similarly afflicted?

If threads here will only be archived for a few months, then this forum becomes pretty unappealing.

I wonder, what are some other kitchen forums, outside of GW?

This has been going on for a few weeks now.

Buehl or others, how do you contact the PTB? What is the email or link? I can't find anyone to complain to.

Would it make sense to publicize that info in an appropriately-titled thread, in this forum and others so afflicted, so that all who are unhappy about this situation can register their complaint?

I'd go exploring to find somewhere else for us all to go to, but I don't know what I'm looking for/at or how to go about setting anything up. PLEASE, if anything is found, make it public here if possible so we can all move over. It would be such a shame to lose all the effort and wisdom of this place.

Back before late-2007, when a thread dropped off the 67th page, it was gone forever. It might be available in cache via Google for a short time, but not for long.

Then, suddenly in late-2007 we stopped losing the threads. Sure, we couldn't bump them back to the list or find them via a GW search, but if we had bookmarked it we could always get it back. I thought the site had evolved...

However, the site now appears to be de-evolving and taking a giant step backwards...we are now losing the older threads.

To contact the Powers That Be (PTB):
http://letters.gardenweb.com/letters/nph-ind.cgi

(Look for the "Contact Us" link on the bottom right of most pages.)

FYI...I would say that over 90% of the threads I've bookmarked and frequently referenced and recommended to others are now useless...

A huge loss of knowledge and advice!

Check out the "What's New on GardenWeb" (you may have to expand it to see it)...

Friday, 1:45pm ET: We are aware that older, archived posts appear to be missing. Our tech team is investigating and we hope to have this resolved soon.

Oh, and I JUST got a response from GW about the missing thread issue.

Tamara says they are trying to restore the old posts...the Tech Team is working on it. So, yes, they do pay attention to us!

Thanks Tamara!

I emailed the PTB. I figure that additional voices cannnot hurt.

Nice to know I'm not alone!!! I hope they get this resolved. I'm kicking myself for stuff I should have downloaded or saved somehow. But who'd a thunk?

One real downside to losing the archives is that there is nowhere to get responses and info on recurring questions. The usual suspects will get bored with answering over and over, or get annoyed with the newbies and ignore them. And then the character of the place will change.

Somehow I missed the 67 page thing. That's good to know. In the meantime, I'm going to send a message as well to the PTB.

bump in case anyone wanted to press the PTB on this. It was very aggravating and it still is.

Wanted to add my two cents. Still very disappointing! Please resolve!!!!

Bump for PTB email

Bump for PTB email

Bumping since they haven't fixed the ''old threads gone'' problem, the ''threadstarter reduced to single character'' problem, or consistently fixed the ''less than 67 pages show up'' problem.