@Again wrote:
@plummerl wrote:
@Again wrote:
@plummerl wrote:
To continue with this thread, what rational human decided to allow inaccessible archive threads in the forum search results?????
Trying to find a solution to one problem I'm having, searching the forum results in around 75% of the search results being from the archives.
Is there actually a software engineering team anywhere to be found?
Post your problem in the appropriate forum and you might find your solution that way. Often archived items contain outdate information.
How on earth does this respond to my posting? The issue, is that doing a search, which is the normal approach to finding solutions, is returning a plethora of hits that point to possible solutions that are in an archive that cannot be penetrated! In one archive return, it was archived a mere 7 months ago.
It may have been removed 7 months ago, but the post/thread may have been outdated and closed. We strive to keep updated information available, and in order to do so sometimes it's necessary to remove and archive some posts/threads.
If you choose to not accept that and won't post your issue so that you can receive update help, that's fine.
I think that maybe the point here is not whether outdated posts are closed, archived, and made unavailable, but rather that they're showing up in search results at all. Maybe I'm making a gross oversimplification, but it would seem to me that it should be a simple programming requirement to simply not return archived posts at all.
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