Why isn't any archived thread more than 9 posts long?
Couldn't you save more than 9 posts per thread?
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I think the more important question will be whether they keep the new posts or purge them periodically like imdb did. Assuming this community grows, that would be what I would care about.
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shareI remember having a debate on imdb that maxed out the posts per thread limit. A while later I went back and it was gone. I never really bothered posting as much after that knowing it would be gone anyway. I realize that message boards are usually transient things, the people who make a forum get really excited about something then eventually they grow out of that phase and no longer wish to maintain it, so I no longer take them too seriously but it would be nice if this resource stays for awhile.
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shareyer there was a problem with it, but thats to That Archive where they backed up all the archives we can slowly bring them over here yay
shareAs some others have mentioned, we have virtually all of the movie and tv show threads backed up offline (thanks to archiveteam), and we're currently working on uploading everything to the site.
shareThat's great to hear. Does it include the missing posts for threads that were more than 9 posts long?
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shareRight on Jim! That's what I wanted to hear!
So would it be best to not post on those old IMDb-threads just yet? If you're going to eventually over-write them with the entire threads as they were from IMDb, I'm wondering if I shouldn't reply to those until that task is complete.
Will they have the original formatting (especially quote boxes) preserved? Some IMDb discussions heavily utilized quote boxes to the point that certain discussions might become a little confusing without them.
Also, will they retain their original nesting? That is to say, will the archived version of an IMDb comment that was nested below another be nested in the same manner on MovieChat?
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shareThank you for that link. I didn't know about that site. Based on what I can tell, it contains movie and television boards, but no actor boards. The archived boards seem to be complete for the time that they were archived (some archived boards, such as the ones that I archived, have more of the recent posts, as I and some others were archiving right until the end). They did indeed save the original quote boxes and nesting.
I'm not the one who archived the Hitchcock boards (that was swanstep). I did save quite a few other boards though. You can see who saved what in this thread:
https://www.moviechat.org/movies/general/posts/58a6453f0a13470011b2a1a3
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shareI feel like updating this thread. While pretty much every movie and TV show of note have gotten their threads fully restored which is great, there are still countless actors and directors whose discussion profiles are still a wasteland. Where those threads never saved or are there still a lot left archived which have yet to be released?
shareNot all of the threads were restored, sadly. There was a thread on the "Asian cinema" board called "The official Asian drama thread" containing hundreds of posts about good Japanese, Chinese and Korean dramas, and that thread is still only nine posts. So, the rest seems to have been lost. A shame.
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