'The Archives' forum damage

nariz

I noticed that the 3 forums inside the Archives are damaged somehow.
They say to have 0 topics and when opened, only 1 topic and the announcements show, and there is only 1 page and a "-0" page.
Clicking the "-0" page just goes back to page 1.
What happened?

SomeGuy

It looks like a forum pagination bug of some kind. I had noticed a similar issue on the Members page the other day but that one seems to be working now.

If you manually edit the URL so it ends with "&start=1" then some other posts show up.

BOD

This is a very, very old bug that originates like possibly 2007 or so. The forum has been hosted on some questionable hardware/software configurations over the years and in addition to some other... issues it's taken its toll on the DB. There's many missing posts and topics all over the place from back in the day.

Duff

As BOD mentioned, the database has been through so many transfers and conversions over the years. This has led to corruption or bugs from conversions long since done.

As a result some of the oldest forum content is buggy, you'll also notice duplicate topics, broken links, amongst other quirks at times.

This should only apply to old posts in any forum on here, nothing recent.