Old Posts - Where Did They Go?

Monty Hampton wrote:

I tried several renditions of searching for my name and did indeed retrieve some, but they were sprinkled throughout several hundred with other Monty's and Hampton's.

Good Morning! Sorry to be slow getting back I usually haunt ASC only in the morning hours.

That result could be browser-dependent. Most have a way to force only the search of an entire string instead of its components. I suspect all those other aggravating hits were because the search ignored the "site:" part that localizes it to Apple sites.

I just tested the above string except with my name and I got only hits from this site. Then I tested with the string I made for your and I get two pages (17 hits) of Apple posts that you appear to have created or at least joined. I used Yahoo search and Safari 13 and I did not have to use quotes or other string modifiers.

I suggest that, instead of retyping, you copy and paste the search string from my first response, and maybe try different browsers and search engines, to see if you make headway

Was just used to being able to see them when I was in the discussion group.

Find comfort in the fact that you are not alone in that feeling!

BTW, I did just notice that my filter quit working since Apple changed the email origin from discussions-updates@apple.com to discussions-updates@email.apple.com sometime after 2018. Must have been when they purged the old post?

You are not playing the Lone Ranger there either! I had just gotten a new iMac five weeks before the forum software changes and had to start using Apple Mail. The Mail rules I set to route all ASC notifications kept failing because the email addresses kept changing. That rule for ASC routing now has three address listed, and still some don't get moved automatically.

In case you want to look in your archives for something that happened right at the change-over date, that was Wednesday Dec 5, 2018.

After 20 years here I realize Apple, in building their own forum software. were in fact victims of their own success. There are so many users world-wide that it reached the point where commercial forums engine could not handle the volume. Given the choice between no forums and what we have today, I'm glad to have the latter!

The only other post I see in your Subscriptions is one about iCloud Drive:

https://discussions.apple.com/profile/Monty%20Hampton/subscriptions

Were there others?

Since the forum software changed in Dec 2018, posts made before that date may not show in Subscriptions. The Hosts are aware of the issue. The workaround most of us use is to put this string in a search engine:

site:discussions.apple.com  Monty Hampton

You are most welcome!