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@MNtundraRET wrote: If you have been coding (programing) as long as I (starting back in 1979), you already know the answer. Yes! There are some good information found in different forums (<1% of respronses).   LOL We are both of a bygone age... My first programming was done in the mid-70's via punched paper tape, in a relatively new programming language called BASIC. (I even have in a drawer or box somewhere a mimeographed copy of one of the early versions of the progamming guide from Dartmouth and signed by K&K (Kemeny and Kurtz)). My first paying IT gig was programming in COBOL and ALC on an IBM 360 mainframe using punch cards.   @MNtundraRET wrote Good programmers are scarce. The Programing is done by an outside company Koros (used to be Lithium). Sadly, this is true. Nowadays, almost anyone can get a job "coding" having very little real world (or common sense) experience. And companies, wanting to rush to get new versions out quickly - with minimal resources spent on testing - rely on the general public to be "wide-area beta testers". Witness how many major (and even some secondary) releases that have a x.x.1 release within a couple of weeks of initial release.   Like you, I'm sure, I have forgotten more about programming, data analysis, system design, QA, and just  good practices than today's coders will ever know. ... View more

@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 It may have been removed 7 months ago, but the post/thread may have been outdated and closed.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. OTOH, I also find it a bit restricting that in a technology world with many different configurations - some cutting edge, but many not so much - that the Comcast Community Forums would not consider the possibility that older information might be exactly what some are looking for. ... View more

@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. ... View more