Good News and Bad News concerning the missing posts

[BSF]

You just wrecked his chances by quoting an aohell commercial!



Seriously, hopefully, this will work! :crosses fingers: :sacrifices rubber chicken:

Funny, I thought he was spoofing the Six Million Dollar Man.

 

[James Heard]

Computers are magic. You guys are amazing for even attempting this.

 

[der_kluge]

Spoony, I dropped you an email. Write me back if you still need my help.

 

[MavrickWeirdo]

Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the technology. We have the capability to build the world's first bionic forum. ENWorld will be that forum. Better than it was before. Better, stronger, faster.

This sounds promising, Spoony. Thanks for trying ti out.

As long as it doesn't cost 6 million dollars.

 

[Steve Jung]

Funny, I thought he was spoofing the Six Million Dollar Man.

Well, now I just feel old.

As long as it doesn't cost 6 million dollars.

You didn't see that $1,000,000 option in the Community Supporter list?

 

[BOZ]

so, any luck yet?

 

[Endur]

Sure, we've lost a few months of posts, but Google has them in cach, so we can reference them if needs be and grab them from there.

I just want to point out that Google does not have the vast majority of missing posts in cache.

For long threads, google only stored the beginning of the thread in its cache. And the beginning of the thread was probably more than six months ago anyways. So for long play by post threads, this is the only way to retrieve those posts. The google and yahoo caches are useless.

 

[Darth K'Trava]

Funny, I thought he was spoofing the Six Million Dollar Man.

Aohell beat you to it.

 

[Conaill]

I just want to point out that Google does not have the vast majority of missing posts in cache.

For long threads, google only stored the beginning of the thread in its cache. And the beginning of the thread was probably more than six months ago anyways. So for long play by post threads, this is the only way to retrieve those posts. The google and yahoo caches are useless.

Actually, typically it caches the last page as well (often links such as .../showthread.php?goto=lastpost&t=155697"). Although those cached pages may have been updated by now, since Google has probably noticed that the content of the "last" page has changed...

 

[Jdvn1]

so, any luck yet?

An ETA (or other information) might be nice too, but I don't know if that's asking too much at this point.