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We are getting near to d-day (hopefully next week) when we will port all the data to the new TRF platform.
To make this process easier and reduce the loading on our new database solution (less powerful but hopefully more stable than the last one) we are looking to delete the oldest 200k posts (we have about 400k posts on there so will lose about half.
It is impossible to go through each one to identify what should be saved and also too difficult/time consuming for the developer to mark certain posts so it will be a simple case of the old ones disappearing into the ether.
SO….if you want to save something you might want to copy/paste it in next few days (we won’t do this until after the weekend) or print it or whatever you need to do to save it.
I’m as reluctant as anyone to lose such a large chunk of TRF history but time to go forward and I’ve been meaning to have a clear-out for a while now.
I’ll post later in the week/weekend to let you know what will be staying/going by way of functionality.
The opening post on Competitions – Hall of Fame/roll of honour is dated Sun Jun 29, 2008 4:05 pm.
Will I need to make a copy or can it be saved?Gaelic Warrior Gold Cup Winner 2026
Copy it Nathan – I think the way the developer is talking the only practical way to do it is a blanket cull by date, not entirely sure where the cut-off will be – I will try to find out.
I do expect you to be saving all my legendary Ante-Post coup threads David?
You can quite safely delete them David.
I’m sure you’ll be reminding us all of them pretty frequently anyway Gord, so no need to take up space
Thanks for the good crack. Time for me to move on. Be lucky.
I have them hanging on the wall at home TAPK as a constant reminder of your unparalleled prowess.
I have them hanging on the wall at home TAPK as a constant reminder of your unparalleled prowess.
Is that his ante-post bets or his testicles David?
Just wondering, he’s been active in a few fields after all
Thanks for the good crack. Time for me to move on. Be lucky.
It’s a pity you can’t keep them in some sort of archive. Not only good to look at sometimes but also good for search engines. It is suprising how many times you can google horseracing stuff and it will come up with an old thread from here.
I think it would be a shame to lose the thread already saved in the archives containing tributes to Daylight posted on, and after, the day of his passing.
If you truly love and value your website Cormack you should make the effort to archive all the posts you plan to delete. It may be difficult, tricky and a pain in the oerse but you owe it to yourself, and more importantly to those who scribbled, who in many cases made terrific contributions
We have, I think, lost many from the early noughties already when you took the decision to delete them prior to an earlier ‘upgrade’
All human life is there Not quite but all ‘early’ message board activity, however trite, narrow-field or seemingly inconsequential when t’internet was young, fresh-faced and thrusting; before we all became cynical and took virtual interaction for granted will I think become a fascinating historical document in the futureIt has been remarked by several that one of the dangers of everything being digitalized and byted these days is that much of it could be lost to future generations
Deleting the work of writers on cyberspace is just the 21st century version of burning books, is it not?
On occasions someone on TRF will resurrect a thread from many years ago; and more often than not it proves to be a fascinating ‘then and now’ read. They mustn’t be lost – cultural vandalism it would be
It is possible to go back in time and see how the forum looked in 2002/3, and even read some of the threads, using this link:
http://web.archive.org/web/200312060132 … i?forum=15
For those that have never encountered it before, the ‘web.archive.org’ site contains stored snapshots of just about every website you can remember. The limitations with a snapshot of a forum are that usually you only get access to the threads listed on the first page. But there’s enough there to give you a flavour.
I’ve given a link to a specific snapshot taken near the end of 2003, but you can find others by starting from the base page and entering the name of the website you wish to view.
If you truly love and value your website Cormack you should make the effort to archive all the posts you plan to delete. It may be difficult, tricky and a pain in the oerse but you owe it to yourself, and more importantly to those who scribbled, who in many cases made terrific contributions
We have, I think, lost many from the early noughties already when you took the decision to delete them prior to an earlier ‘upgrade’
All human life is there Not quite but all ‘early’ message board activity, however trite, narrow-field or seemingly inconsequential when t’internet was young, fresh-faced and thrusting; before we all became cynical and took virtual interaction for granted will I think become a fascinating historical document in the futureIt has been remarked by several that one of the dangers of everything being digitalized and byted these days is that much of it could be lost to future generations
Deleting the work of writers on cyberspace is just the 21st century version of burning books, is it not?
On occasions someone on TRF will resurrect a thread from many years ago; and more often than not it proves to be a fascinating ‘then and now’ read. They mustn’t be lost – cultural vandalism it would be
A though provoking post Drone. I’d never really thought about it like that to be honest with you.
There is a mix of historical and hysterical in there but it probably contains someone’s finest hour and could have opinions that were expressed back then that didn’t come to be proved correct at the time but ten years on might have done, or may still come to pass in the future.
Burning books? It’s probably overstating it slightly to compare it to Fahrenheit 451 but I suppose there is a good case that the human writings should be preserved in all their forms, in order that future generations have access to them.
Then again, a modern day Celcius 232.778, that was selective in removing only Mills And Boon, Barbara Cartland, Jeffrey Archer etc might not be all bad
Thanks for the good crack. Time for me to move on. Be lucky.
It is possible to go back in time and see how the forum looked in 2002/3, and even read some of the threads, using this link:
Well well, that is interesting, thanks
Perhaps it would be possible for Cormack to ‘donate’ the planned deletions to web.archive
By the way APR, I still have every single post from those rollercoaster years on the Smartsig forum archived in tetraplicate on PC, CD, Memory Stick and External HD. An enjoyable warts-and-all dip from time to time
Am I the only one wise/sad/narcissistic/obsessive enough to have kept a Word file of every post and email I’ve ever sent? 943 pages of Baskerville 12-point and counting
There is a mix of historical and hysterical in there but it probably contains someone’s finest hour and could have opinions that were expressed back then that didn’t come to be proved correct at the time but ten years on might have done, or may still come to pass in the future.
Hysteria is more interesting than history, but hysterical history is fascinating
History is more or less bunk. It’s tradition. We don’t want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker’s dam is the history we made today – Henry Ford
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