When we typed the posts in that thread, it was under the impression that it would be available to us Regulars as long as there were Regulars, and that Regulars were trustworthy, and that if our local cache (our human memory) failed, we could review the thread ourselves. But the first premise has now been invalidated; there will no longer be Regulars - nor will that thread be open to people who once held Regular status.
I have always been a digital hoarder; one school year, I downloaded and scraped ALL the posts on the forum before the sysadmin wiped them. Because those were our stories that we wrote, together. Those were our threads about our lives. We built entire worlds on the forum. In previous years, the sysadmin killed them all at a stroke of the keyboard. Even though the exact same people attended year after year, nothing we did mattered. Until it did.
