KFD Site

Ona Kiser wrote: PS - if you link up old posters's names from there with current posters' names here, we risk having to re-visit all the ridiculous stuff we posted years ago.

Indeed, that may be the pain involved with enabling people to see their archived topics in "My Topics".

Pejn wrote: This is great. Thank you!

Why is it read only? Technical reasons?

Interesting question. No, there is no technical reason. It was just decided somewhere along the planning with Kenneth and now, in retrospect, I am not sure what the motivation was. Obviously, a lot of the people on the threads are not here but if you *are* here, should you be prevented from carrying on? There is something to be said for keeping it pristine as a "historical archive", but...

Thoughts?

I was the one that talked to Kenneth Folk about the old KFD threads. Tom is a carrying out Kenneth's wishes by not allowing comments and Kenneth did not want them left open for more conversation. They are from his message board and he wanted them available like they now are, in safe and more permanent place, but he did not want to have to manage them or worry about a set of active message boards bearing his name. Kenneth is very busy with a lot of new things and he doesn't feel he has the time to do the message board "thing" again. I think it's a good call, frankly, as Kenneth views AN as the inheritor of the KFD conversations.

Ona Kiser wrote: Of course an alternative is if someone sees an interesting theme there, they can start a thread on the subject in this part of the forum.

And since the old thread is here now too, linking to it in the new thread.

Please note that, while I had originally made the KFD archive a members-only thing, it is now open for public viewing as the original KFD was.

I am pleased to report that the "second generation" KFD discussions once Wetpaint was shut down have now been imported as well. Right now, they live in a subcategory ("V2") of the main archive, but I may play around with that a bit. As with the other import, some of the formatting is kind of wonky, but quoting actually looks a bit better.

awakenetwork.org/forum/kfd-archive-v2

A hearty "thank you" again, Tom, for preserving our collective online history.