deleting Topics means deleting know-how

[Eadwine Rose]

Guys, a mistake was made, the error was corrected, things got deleted which cannot be retrieved. Stuff like that happens, it was a mistake, nothing more. Can we please now let this go?

[handy]

I much prefer the "classic" style of forum software, like that being used by MX, as I find it much more useful when it comes to finding useful reference material.

The likes of Discourse seem to me to be built for people that do all of the internet surfing from a CEL phone. I really don't like the method that Discourse uses.

Years ago now, when Manjaro went to Discourse, I set up an alternative classic forum (I was the global mod at Manjaro for some time), copying all of the still useful threads from the Tutorials sub-forum over to my new forum. I did this in the hope that it would become popular & by strength of numbers become the "new" replacement venue (to which philm agreed).

Being able to have sticky threads of "value" at the top of the Tutorials sub-forum is golden, imho.

Anyway, unfortunately, the phonies won out... lol
When that became obvious I closed my alternative forum as it was counterproductive.

So many people just ask a question in a forum without ever doing a search.
I used to put useful topics into the Manjaro wiki, as it just seems so logical to point people to the answer of a question rather than parroting off the same thing over & over.

The likes of Discourse make the parrot problem worse.

By the time I got to MX, my forum & wiki focus was all but burned out. For future reference I keep my own local copies of content that I find valuable. When I have to learn something new, I very often make notes to add to my stockpile. I'm sure I'm not alone in that regard... In the old days, those notes would often become a wiki page.

[Duliwi]

Any automatic deletion has now been disabled.Please put this to rest.

Yes. Let's make a point. Thank you for maintaining the forum in your spare time.

[Mauser]

For old information you can try to see if it's here. https://archive.org/

[manyroads]

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By the time I got to MX, my forum & wiki focus was all but burned out. For future reference I keep my own local copies of content that I find valuable. When I have to learn something new, I very often make notes to add to my stockpile. I'm sure I'm not alone in that regard... In the old days, those notes would often become a wiki page.

FWIW.
Much like you, I keep what I find useful in a Desktop wiki tool for my personal re-use. As a formerly young person with an old mind, bad memory I find Zim Wiki magnificent and have been using it for more than 10 years.

[Duliwi]

For old information you can try to see if it's here. https://archive.org/

Thank you. manyroads already suggested this webpage to me.

1)
The first page ("Page 1") from the "MX Help" forum has a lot of copies:

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Example with Topics from me: https://web.archive.org/web/20190709182 ... febfaffc9e

So I went through all this "Page 1" snapshots looking for Topics from me. And yes, I have found a few (6-15). The problem is, when I click on such a topic, then I get this:

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2)
The pages 2-20 do only contain snapshots from 2019 and older:

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So on pages 2-20 I did not find a single Topic from me between 2019-09 and 2022-08 of the "MX help forum" . There are no snapshots on https://archive.org/ between this time frame:
https://web.archive.org/web/20190709182 ... f&start=20

[davidy]

I find Zim Wiki magnificent and have been using it for more than 10 years.
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Thanks ManyRoads. Zim is cool. It's always a challenge to keep track of information.

[handy]

I've used Zim as well. These days I just have a directory of text files with a few sub-directories.

Speaking of aging brains... lol

I've recently installed the Arch based EndeavourOS on my Clevo. Spent a couple of days setting it up how I like. Did a system update with pacman/yay & then of course had to boot with a USB stick, arch-chroot into the Clevo Endeavour system & fix GRUB that was ruined by the update.

Then a day or so later I did another update & got a Kernel Panic that no one thus far knows how to fix...

I'm really over fixing computers.