Chris Dees wrote:
You can browse all the history year by year. Look at the top right at "Time Machine". It says current site and you can select a year from it. As far as I can tell it works.
Time machine is only available for the full Nikon Forum, not for a particular thread, at least so far as I can see. When I go to the Nikon Forum and select a previous year, then search for the Manual Focus Nikon Glass thread for 2012, one of our busiest years because of Nikki, I find ONE POST. If I'm missing something here Chris, I'd love to know what I must do to find all posts.
Incidentally, I found my personal posts have been truncated as well.
I appreciate folks comments on this subject. It does feel like a significant loss, both as Colin mentions because it offers newcomers a deep look at who we are and how we operate with one another, and as Laura observes. Yes, there is a great deal of information in this thread which HAD BEEN available since addition by Fred of a search function WITHIN the thread.
When I raised the question some time ago about missing pages Fred never responded... so I'm not expecting we'll hear from him and certainly not expecting anything will change. I can't help but think about Adam Silverman who created TrekEarth where I first rekindled my love of photography. That was where I first met Rinie. I was there for a few years. Here's my bio page... but hold your breath everyone... I was shooting CANON at the time.
I mention that because after a few years of free wheeling conversation he began tightening things up. Gradually folks began leaving the thread, many of whom had become good friends. I surmised that he was trying to avoid disagreements because he intended to sell the website, which he eventually did. I eventually found a home on Fred Miranda and met the characters who reside on this thread. I'm happy about that, but remembering what happened on TrekEarth I'm cautious.
I'm reading a book called Momma Zen and read a chapter this morning titled "Flowers Fall - When Bad Things Happen." It begins with this quote -
"Yet in attachment blossoms fall, and in aversion weeds spread."
- Dogen Zenji, "Actualizing the Fundamental Point"
Buddhists are encouraged to meditate on the glass already broken. I think you get the picture. No matter how much we wish things to be a certain way and no matter how much our life experience has given us things that seem to be permanent... there is no such thing. We are eternally coming to terms with loss, with change. Fred will do what Fred does with this website, with this forum, with this thread. I recall when we were concerned that the post counter might not be long enough to handle this thread when we passed 100,000 posts. There was room... though now it appears there isn't room for the reality of those posts.
I don't know whether this is the beginning of the end. I guess the best we can do is enjoy each day we find our friends on this thread. I'll send Fred an email but frankly, I don't expect a response...
