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Request ability to read older posts in the current forums....

I know several forums which have had a lot of messages, moreso than those available when selecting a single forum to peruse.  There are often times that I have wanted to re-read a post that I had seen once already but did not recall much concerning the content, only to find it not available from the particular forum.  Even using the page numbers at the bottom of the forum topics seem to only allow you to view topics only a month or less old. 

Is there any way to read all of those topics going back to the beginning of the current system?  I am ****uming that the archive webpages are only for the older forum mechanism, and not for the current.  If there isn't a way to view those topics, could an addition to the forums be created to do so?

Re: Request ability to read older posts in the current forums....

Reply #1 –
You should be able to see all posts. The forum moved three times and was lost twice, thus there are two old forums. Look for them at http://archive.forum.simutrans.com/
 

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Your English is actually too high level for me, but if I understood what you are saying: No, this particular forum has history of about two years. If you see only messages less than month old, you're doing something wrong. If that isn't the case... The previous instance (design identical with current) is archived - try the link prissi gave. The one before that was, to my best knowledge, first. That one is lost, it seems. Apart from these, there are also the ancient yahoo groups "simutrans" and "simu_gfx". And then there is Japanese forum and wiki. And that should be all there was...

My projects... Tools for messing with Simutrans graphics. Graphic archive - templates and some other stuff for painters. Development logs for most recent information on what is going on. And of course pak128!

Re: Request ability to read older posts in the current forums....

Reply #3 –
Bah!  For some reason I was thinking there was more traffic in the forums, since the time of the changeover.  Sorry for my misinterpretation of what was going on. 

Perhaps it wouldn't be too difficult to include a link showing "archives", which takes you to the older forum?  Exceptions would be when a forum is introduced after the changeover.

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Perhaps it wouldn't be too difficult to include a link showing "archives", which takes you to the older forum?
http://forum.simutrans.com/index.php?topic=119.0
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and maggikraut.

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Reply #5 –
Dwachs, I was referring to a link on the current board's forum, so that it would maintain an orderly "flow" chronologically.  If placed immediately to the right of the last page number when viewing the topic listing, it might be more helpful than either scouring for the archival forums or being told within a topic that it is available. 

An example would be a current board with 3 pages and the similar archived board with multiple pages, one would see the following:  1, 2, 3, archived.  This would be instead of seeing:  1, 2, 3.

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Reply #6 –
understand now :)

this sounds like it requires some hacking with the forum's source code...
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and maggikraut.

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Reply #7 –
That sounds great but I'm afraid it would require some kind of plugin, in case it exists, and a great effort to find and link the archived threads with the actual ones.

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Forum layout (meaning boards) changes slightly from time to time as needed. Thus it is impossible to link perfectly current and old versions together - there will be boards with no match on the other side. If that can be lived with, there is still the question of custom modifications to forum... after every upgrade we would have to re-apply manually our changes. That is the biggest obstacle.

My projects... Tools for messing with Simutrans graphics. Graphic archive - templates and some other stuff for painters. Development logs for most recent information on what is going on. And of course pak128!