# Why can I not find a post I made 20 years ago?

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**Created:** [March 3, 2023, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-can-i-not-find-a-post-i-made-20-years-ago/980643 "2023-03-03T09:33:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2023, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-can-i-not-find-a-post-i-made-20-years-ago/980643/6 "2023-03-03T20:35:08Z")

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> [@engineer\_comp\_geek](#):
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> But yes, the threads still exist. The only threads that no longer exist are from the “Winter of our missed content”, December 2001 to March 2002.

Well, there is at least [one MPSIMS topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-topic/920331) that seems to have disappeared during the transition, which I can confirm still does not show up when [searching within the correct date range](https://boards.straightdope.com/search?q=%40Max_S%20after%3A2019-03-01%20before%3A2019-04-01).

There was a pre-Discourse debate concerning [Andrew Yang’s Universal Basic Income](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-topic-andrew-yangs-ubi-proposal/952326) which also seems to have disappeared.

I can speculate that one or more participants in these missing topics were flagged as a troll, thus somehow preventing the entire thread from being carried over.

~Max

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