How Much Valuable BitcoinTalk Information Have We Lost Over the Years?

[SuperBitMan]

Bitcointalk forum has been around for years now and a lot of discussions, technical explanations and personal experiences have been shared by members here, some of this discussions, technical explanations and personal experiences shared in this forum is now becoming very difficult to access.

Some of this old thread now contains broken external link, missing photos and even very hard to discover by newbies. I believe this threads or discussions still contain useful information, lessons that is worth preserving.

It is true that forum evolve and not every old information or discussion must be preserved or maintained, but you can agree with me that there are some discussions or threads that is still very useful.

Some discussions are not outdated because they are still informative, educative and helpful to the bitcoin community especially to newbies.


Now do you guys think BitcoinTalk has lost access to some valuable knowledge over the years? Share your honest opinion or thought

[Bitcoin_Arena]

This is something we have no control over. Websites can go offline at any time.

I remember when the merit system was introduced, people really tried to create different kinds of informative threads and guides, but this seems to have slowed down with time, perhaps due to the fear of repetition and lack of motivation. Back then, those merits were a very good motivating factor for members who had not yet ranked.up.

I think threads with outdated or broken links can still be recreated if the OP is no longer active. There is no harm in doing that.

[Mia Chloe]

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Nothing has been lost actually except you wanna include stuff like PMs that were deleted one way or the other. that aside every other information is still actively accessible on the forum and as for the broken images it’s a fault from the image hosting site especially IMGUR.

There was a movement I think a year back that focused on recovering most of the broken images and LoyceV and some other members retrieved a lot but not all.

[un_rank]

Majority of forum information is in text form, I will guess it is more than 90% of it. We still have all of those preserved here.
Broken imgur links was the major issue that caused loss of information. There were fixes like this ^[1], but with many members inactive, it will not get around quickly enough, or ever for some posts.

I do not know how old threads are difficult to discover for newbies. If they read on how to search effectively and have an idea of what they are looking for, they should find it

[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5452662.0

- Jay -