A lot of those blowups and meltdowns no longer exist. Remember, on the old forum, they didn't delete threads they just deleted the title from the database index. So they wouldn't be visible on the forum page, but if you had saved the url or knew the thread number, you could still accesstje thread. The unindexed threads were all deleted during the switch over to this new format.

Rembember the hidden boards?

Thunder.Gerbil wrote:

Years ago, I found a lot of threads by putting random numbers in where the post number was......some of it interesting...mostly a waste of time poking around the haystack...I had save links to first overbid, first pic, first animated gif, some silly stuff from gonz and others, but I don't have those anymore....I never did have the great ones saved

dstieger wrote:

When the new forum (the one you are using now) went live, the database and indexing was updated, which changed the urls of all threads.

Thunder.Gerbil wrote: