On the right side of the forums screen, left click on your name listed under “My Profile”. Once on your profile infomation page left click the number on the left side of the screen telling you how meny posts you have made. This will bring up a complete list of all the posts you have made on the MR forums.
However, at the moment it’s still limited to 9/13/2008 or newer posts. I’ve inquired into Erik (Bergie) about when this will be resolved and get back with an answer.
Tom
I noticed the same thing. A bit frustrating. But perhaps this is attempt to prevent our “friend” Al Mayo from bringing up old threads.
I still miss the old functionality. An easily accessible list of my posts with ones that have new content indicated. The link was right at the top of every forum. I really wish they would bring that back.
Chris
I was thinking the same thing. Iknow there was a problem with the WPF threads awhile back, and then what happened a couple of weeks ago. Maybe its to avoid problems again.
Weird - all the old posts are there in the archive, you just can’t find your old ones using the search function. For that matter, the search function doesn’t bring up any old posts from before about Sep 6th (was that the cutover date for the new format? Seems like the cutover was on or about OCT 6th, maybe). I hope they get this fixed soon, not only is it fun for me to go back and re-read some of the old discussions I have participated in, but for someone researching a particular topic, all the knowledge archived in this forum over the last several years is inaccessible. OK, I guess it’s not impossible to access, but it’s much more difficult to access.
Tom
I’ve been watching my old posts attach themselves to View posts by (screen name) in my profile, one or a couple of new (old) ones each time I check. At that rate, all 3500 or so that existed a week before the Great Upheaval will be available in about two years…
Funny, all the posts clear back to Day 1 are available if you click last>> at the bottom right of the page - but you can only go back about six weeks with the search function. 'Tis a pozzlement…
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
I agree with you guys. The old way to access active topics and ones old posts were so much simpler. I’m disapointed in the change.
Happy railroading
Lee
I can only assume it is because all internal references in the underlying database probably have changed - users have new id numbers, URL styles have changed (from http://www.trains.com/CS/TRC to http://cs.trains.com/trcss) and so on and so forth.
I suspect that it is now a matter of having some program loop back through the old posts sequentially and rewrite them all so they fit into the format the new forum software is using for searchable indexes.
Guess what happened most likely is what happens quite often in switching software. Functionality in the new software gets tested (perhaps not perfectly - far too many bugs that ought to have been caught slipped through), but nobody thinks about testing the migration/conversion process on a copy of the live data in a test environment.
Not surprising. It can be a a big, nasty and potensially expensive job to set up a parallell instance of the live installation and do a test migration that to see what issues pop up.
And that extra test environment probably will not be used enough to justify the cost of establishing it, unless you do frequent migrations.
At the place where I work, we do test migrations of mission critical software to new v
I was advised that MRR is in the process of re-indexing their data base and when finished the search feature will work again.
For those who don’t know, any data base needs periodic re-indexing to insure accuracy of the data. It is like sticking new file folders anyplace in the file cabinet and later on putting them in their proper order.
Check each time you sign on and you will see some progress.
Doc