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Nice one, Del. With this and your wizardry on the unknown tracks board, you�ve pretty much secured yourself a first-class no-questions-asked VIP pass to the pearly gates after you kick the bucket. Seriously, if this isn�t divine intervention in action, I don�t know what is

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Originally posted by Lira Nice one, Del. With this and your wizardry on the unknown tracks board, you�ve pretty much secured yourself a first-class no-questions-asked VIP pass to the pearly gates after you kick the bucket. Seriously, if this isn�t divine intervention in action, I don�t know what is

lol thanks. Ultimately this is just another way to compensate for the search which rarely provided the results we wanted.

The nerd in me does think it would be cool to figure out a way to do a "On This Day" type thing for logged in users, on the live site, that shows you a link to a past thread or post that stands out from the rest (like how many people quoted you within that thread, or if certain, uh, expletives were used).

Beyond nestalgia, and TA turning 25 on Jan 23rd, the archivist in me thinks it's sad how many sites/forums are disappearing off the Internet, like they never existed.

Vox article from 2015 sums it up:

"And I miss that old internet, too. As Hossein Derakhshan writes beautifully at Medium, that was a world, ultimately, of communities, where a hyperlink could boost a fledgling site's traffic for a few days. It was a world that had many, many flaws, but it was one eventually built around the idea that if you created a place where people could gather based around shared interests, they ultimately would. It was the ideal of the original internet made real, an actual, virtual web spreading its tendrils about the world.

Now, however, our articles increasingly seem to be individual insects trapped in someone else's web. The internet has the exact opposite problem of every other medium. Instead of going from something for everybody to something for a large series of hyper-specialized niches, we're navigating the choppy seas where once stood an archipelago and increasingly stands a continent. As TV and music and even publishing become the internet, the internet is becoming everything else � and it's taking so much of what seemed to make it special with it."
https://www.vox.com/2015/8/6/9099357/internet-dead-end

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I don't know if there's enough momentum behind it to radically change things anytime soon, but I do sense there's some pushback against the current climate of 'everything apps' for many people out there, especially as they're consolidated around tech-bro oligarch interests. Might this usher in a return to something like the classic forum board era? Who knows, but there is a younger generation on the rise that may want to rebel against the current paradigm.

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But wow, checked out a few dates in the Cali forum and the old names that were posting...wonder what they are up to now.

Thanks for this. Had probably too much fun enjoying the old vibes.

Thanks, Swamps.

Yeah I agree with the above!

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Originally posted by Swamper lol thanks. Ultimately this is just another way to compensate for the search which rarely provided the results we wanted.

Noting that I've had a very very long TA hiatus, so this might be common knowledge by now, but what is the problem stopping search from being re-enabled?