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Update on the old forum archive

Lisa Miles
Hi all


I have some news regarding the archive of the old posts in the previous forum (powered by Fusetalk)


The Fusetalk software will finally go offline permanently by the end of January 2020 meaning that it will no longer be available or searchable. As we’ve said previously the software is no longer supported and now poses a serious cybersecurity concern.


There will be a short length of time where discussions within the old forum will not be available while an archive is being prepared.  We suggest if there are any discussions you wish to keep for reference, that you save a copy of it before the end of January.


It has also been requested that we only archive the conversations posted on the old forum since the release of the 18th Edition Wiring regs (i.e. from July/August 2018) so that out-of-date regs information is not made available. So again, if there are any past conversations that you wish to keep a copy of then we’d recommend that you do so before the end of January.


Any questions please ask or email us at community-online@theiet.org

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    It has also been requested that we only archive the conversations posted on the old forum since the release of the 18th Edition Wiring regs (i.e. from July/August 2018) so that out-of-date regs information is not made available.




    Presumably not requested by anyone who actually has read many of the threads, as a large chunk of it is completely regs agnostic.  - as despite the title is much of this forum as well, though I agree it is fading in popularity. Quite often we  are interested in why things are done, and how to do them in a well engineered way, and if they are not applicable then the UK regs can just play catch up.

    @LisaMiles

    How big is the whole archive, and if the IET does not want  to keep it, would they be amenable to someone else looking after it ?


    I know it says there are 45839  threads on the front page
    here

    but in reality I know it wrapped over 65536 (2^16)  at least once as thread nos started to repeat.



     


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    It has also been requested that we only archive the conversations posted on the old forum since the release of the 18th Edition Wiring regs (i.e. from July/August 2018) so that out-of-date regs information is not made available.




    Presumably not requested by anyone who actually has read many of the threads, as a large chunk of it is completely regs agnostic.  - as despite the title is much of this forum as well, though I agree it is fading in popularity. Quite often we  are interested in why things are done, and how to do them in a well engineered way, and if they are not applicable then the UK regs can just play catch up.

    @LisaMiles

    How big is the whole archive, and if the IET does not want  to keep it, would they be amenable to someone else looking after it ?


    I know it says there are 45839  threads on the front page
    here

    but in reality I know it wrapped over 65536 (2^16)  at least once as thread nos started to repeat.



     


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