# Longest Tenure? **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-tenure/1012548 **Category:** About This Message Board **Created:** [January 4, 2025, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-tenure/1012548 "2025-01-04T12:17:06Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 125
### Author: ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P) #### Post date: [January 21, 2025, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-tenure/1012548/125 "2025-01-21T13:13:54Z")
> [@Happy\_Fun\_Ball](#): > > How did you do that? In older threads, from before we switched to this board, links to other threads are now broken because of the different naming convention. If you take one of those broken links and plug it into the wayback machine, you can still view the old thread and on the vB version of the board. And in that old thread, you can hover over the poster’s usernames and get the number. The trick is finding a link to a thread you’ve posted in. For me, the easiest way was to a do a google search for my user name (which didn’t have an underscore, making it easier to find old threads), along with “this thread” (hoping for a link from one thread to another) and site:boards.straightdope.com As an example, doing that got me this thread: > [@Why was this thread locked?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-this-thread-locked/268475): > > Can I ask this? I’m not trying to re-open or continue discussing, I’m just curious as to why it was locked. [Here it is](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=280117). I know it was about homework, but it wasn’t asking for the answer, just a bump in the right direction. If you read it, no one gave him the answer, he figured it out himself with the help of some other dopers. So why was it locked. He did eventually figure out the answer (which was never posted, so it’s not like someone did his homework for him), so the thread was done, but… In that thread, I posted a link to this thread, as seen here by the wayback machine: > **[Argh...I can't solve algebraic fractions - Straight Dope Message Board](http://web.archive.org/web/20110204100047/http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=280117)** > > Argh...I can't solve algebraic fractions General Questions and from there you can hover over usernames to get the numbers. Side note: interestingly, the old vB style links now work. They still show the old URL but it takes you to the current version of the page. (ETA, then stick that number in your profile somewhere so you can find it when we do this again in a few years) --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-tenure/1012548)._