Looking for a very old post

[Volt]

About 4 years ago, I wrote an IC post I was really proud of. I recently resurrected my nations, and would love to find that post again. The link to the old Jolt forum just brings me to the current forums. Is there any way to find this post again?

Thanks.

[Khadgar]

Best you can do is check the internet archive but it's incredibly spotty about what it has from the Jolt era.

[Tinhampton]

The current phpBB forums were incarnated in 2009, meaning that your posts from 2012 should still be here rather than lost to the wind.

[Volt]

The current phpBB forums were incarnated in 2009, meaning that your posts from 2012 should still be here rather than lost to the wind.

I did a search for my username and nothing came up. Did we lose data at some point?

[Noahs Second Country]

The current phpBB forums were incarnated in 2009, meaning that your posts from 2012 should still be here rather than lost to the wind.

I did a search for my username and nothing came up. Did we lose data at some point?

Hmm

[Khadgar]

The current phpBB forums were incarnated in 2009, meaning that your posts from 2012 should still be here rather than lost to the wind.

I did a search for my username and nothing came up. Did we lose data at some point?

Depends how old the post actually was. Your first post in this thread showed as your first post ever. I suspect the post you're looking for was Jolt era.

[Minoa]

If you are looking for a Jolt thread, it’s not quite gone: https://nsindex.net/wiki/Jolt_Forums

Ermarian currently maintains an independent archive of a majority of topics and posts from the Jolt Forums.

[Tinhampton]

The current phpBB forums were incarnated in 2009, meaning that your posts from 2012 should still be here rather than lost to the wind.

I did a search for my username and nothing came up. Did we lose data at some point?

I doubt it - the phpBB forums remain relatively intact. Did you write it using another account? Was the post part of a thread sent to the mods' Evidence Locker?

[Lady Scylla]

Just a note: This should really be in Technical, not General.

[Luna Amore]

If it was on the Jolt forums (which were 7+ years ago now), there is an archive of some of the old Jolt and original forums here: http://nationstates.ermarian.net/jolt/

If you know the nation name that posted it, you can search google to find that nation's posts like this:

site:http://nationstates.ermarian.net/jolt/ "Nation Name Here"

[Bears Armed]

If it was in (or got moved to) F7, then inactive threads in that part of the forum are "auto-pruned" after a week...