GlenP Posted May 2, 2017 Share Posted May 2, 2017 Has IPS ever considered archiving off all the old posts on this site? While there is no problem with performance, I'd just like to see them removed from search results. I get tired of doing a search for something only to find that the most relevant posts are from the 2.x and 3.x days. Either that or reset the default to show results sorted by date. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joy Rex Posted May 2, 2017 Share Posted May 2, 2017 It would be difficult and extremely time-consuming to separate the legacy content from the current version - one way to do it programmatically would be is to find all mentions of 3.x in the bodies and titles of posts, and then set a "3.x" tag to them - even then, it wouldn't catch everything. If there was an open tagging system where anyone could tag content, the community could help in catching the outliers, that would help too. The second step would be then to offer the tag as a search criteria, with 4.x being the default, and allow searches for 3.x content as an optional parameter (interesting too that tags aren't part of the search criteria already). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GlenP Posted May 2, 2017 Author Share Posted May 2, 2017 I was thinking more of archiving anything posted before the official 4.0 release date. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim M Posted May 2, 2017 Share Posted May 2, 2017 Currently, if you wish to avoid certain forums or filter down by date you can do that in Advanced Search. That will help narrow down what you're looking for version 4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GlenP Posted May 4, 2017 Author Share Posted May 4, 2017 Oops. A fair point I hadn't thought of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZackL Posted May 4, 2017 Share Posted May 4, 2017 Aren't all the 3.x discussions in their own forums and new ones were created for 4.x? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel R Posted May 5, 2017 Share Posted May 5, 2017 2 hours ago, ZackL said: Aren't all the 3.x discussions in their own forums and new ones were created for 4.x? Yes. Unfortunately because they're not archived, they still appear in search results which is the concern of the original OP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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