What is this and how do i turn it off?

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Hi Peter,

See this documentation:

 

4.5 settings are radically different. basically it appears to always be on. I can chose the number of years.  in my case 5 and older.

Anyway to turn OFF archiving?

 

@peter gariepy, I'd open a support request. On our install (we don't have archiving enabled), we have a toggle switch that allows us to turn it on. I'm not sure what the workflow is to turn it off, yet there's clearly not one in your screenshot where there is in ours.

Yes. I see on another IP install different options than what I have.

 

I had just posted a new thread  on this a few hours ago as this one did not turn up in search on "archive". 

I have exact same issue on the cloud with 4.5.2.  

 

Edited September 19, 20204 yr by clearvision

@Matt this is happening to a lot of us.

I also would like this turned off.... I have lots of posts from 3 years ago that I would like to be able to update. Nevermind search functionality being hosed.

this is the first time I've encountered this.... so it must have been turned on without my consent on one of the recent updates.

@TheWorldNewsMedia.org I just upgraded to 4.5.4 and now on the cloud you can turn it off.

Edited October 26, 20204 yr by clearvision

We made changes for Community In The Cloud customers that allows you to disable this feature unless your site is over a certain size threshold.

I would not call my website a large site at all...... (AND I pay Amazon for their S3 buckets for storage.....)

Will I wake up next month to find out there is a maximum amount of posts on any website or club?

And I noticed my search function isn't keeping up to date for the first time today.....

 

How are we supposed to eventually compete with the giants if we can't even support our tiny websites.

What a disappointing journey this online publishing business has become.

 

I'm glad I'm slowly exiting the business.  Anybody else in my shoes?

Let me just add that the most important perspective for ALL of us should be the user's perspective. 

Invision and I are partners in this venture...... we should care about how our user's feel.... not so much how we feel.

Can you imagine going to your Facebook post from 3 years ago only to find out you can't edit it or even reply to it because Mark Zuckerberg decided to "archive" it on you?

That is so 1996.

I understand the need for archiving huge sites over time....... and by that I mean I would (as a user) not complain if Yahoo Groups archived posts from like 10-15 years ago.

but posts within a decade should be fair game.

If your site is over a specific size threshold you can choose to archive content on Community In The Cloud between 1-12 years old, however 12 years ago is the oldest range allowed presently.

If your site is under that threshold, or if you host your community yourself, there is no archive enforcement.