I think the cutoff has always been that if a thread has been inactive for 90 days, it gets removed from the indexes, but not from the database.
From a database standpoint, 30k+ records is nothing at all, and won't slow down thread title searches noticeably at all, so I'm going to request that searches include *all* threads.
Great idea, and I concur fully, for several reasons.
For one example, in biotech investing (and other fields too, I assume, but I know a little about biotech), often when a company is taken over by another (SIBI, SUGN, AGPH, etc.), and products originally developed by the acquiree a further moved through the pipeline by the combined entity, it is useful to be able to look at the old posts on the SIBI, AGPH, etc. threads, which have gone inactive.
More generally, it's better to have the whole history readily available - for company reserach, for looking at what someone has said in the past about something he's now holding forth on, etc.
For the change in features list: what happened to the indication of when the page was last refreshed, that used to appear on the top (or at the members' option, at the bottom) of each page? I found this useful and used it a lot.
And: is it possible to search back farther in the databases - my sense (perhaps outdated) is that the searches only go back a few months. It would be immensely useful if you could go back farther - even if only in one thread (or the posts of one member), it would be very helpful if we could go back much farther to try to recover dimly remembered posts on particular subjects. (Although some information is relevant for only short periods of time, lots of posts are relevant - for investment purposes - years after they are made.)
Again, thanks for all your work in this recent crisis.
-- RCM |
