I'm quite new here so I thought about exploring some boards. I opened up the Archival board and I tried making a post there but I wasn't able to. I then got to know that newbies are not allowed to make posts in the board. But I am a bit curious and I would like to know why it's so.
I applaud your desire to explore the forum. I know you cannot be able to visit the whole boards in the forum, but you will cover alot if you are determined and it is one of the advice I gave in one of my newbie help compilation posts. To be able to tour the forum is a good one.
However, even until now I haven't visited the archival board to try open topics there. When I was a newbie, I became aware of the board and as the name implies, it should be were old stuffs of the forum are found. So, it didn't make any sense at all for a newbie trying to make posts in archival.