On the off-chance that somebody still reads here...

I have noticed something strange: old messages seem to randomly disappear. For example in this topic:
Sword Balance: What to Read

My top post, but also two of the answers (one by me and one by another member) are not displayed any longer. I'm pretty sure this is recent behaviour, i.e. they were still there a week ago. The first few lines still show up in searches - but not when you display the full post.

I was just trying to see how many of the links therein were invalid and lost to time, and now it seems the post itself is getting lost to time :)

Regards,

Vincent,
Yes, we still read things here. :) I'll reach out to Nathan and see if he has any insight. I don't have access to the kind of behind the scenes data you'd have to look at in order to diagnose things.

According to Nathan, the whole site was just migrated to a new server. Some things got lost in the changeover. There's the potential for an eventual restoration from a backup copy, but it's hard to say when that might happen.

Hi Chad!

Thanks for following up!

Server migrations are a headache even for simpler sites, I just cannot imagine how painful it must be for this one. Fixing things up from backups will probably be complicated and I'm not sure it's worth it. As long as the damage is contained and it's not a sign of things incrementally failing, I think people will be able to live with it.

[Edit to add] While posting this, I have been met with a message "Error 550", something about not being properly authenticated to a mail server. As you can see the message still goes through, but I thought I'd let you know.

Many thanks to you and Nathan for keeping this great resource up!

Best regards,