ConsulCaesar: But in my opinion it's pretty clear they took them off because of the controversial and offensive ones...
AstralWanderer: If that was the case, then surely customer (1- and 2-star) reviews would have been the first to face the axe?
ConsulCaesar: It was also often brought up in the forums (although I think never officially confirmed) that the coder that originally worked on the GOGmixes had long ago left the company and nobody knew how / wanted to fix the outdated code.
AstralWanderer: This seems more plausible - a support ticket I raised earlier this year about this forum's problem with links in posts (you can't have more than one per line without the forum software screwing it up and it can't cope with special characters) received the reply:
"Forum code is very old, basically as old as the company and there are no active works to further develop it at present, as it will most likely need a full replacement instead of touch ups." I would expect that, when the time comes, the forum software update will be a completely fresh install, with all of the current forum "archived" and not immediately available. To mitigate as much backlash as possible, the sticky topics will be transferred, but none of the other commentary will make it.
My gloomy prognosis is due to the dearth of features in this software, and the difficulty (coding, transfer time, cost to administer, downtime opportunity cost) in extracting the conversations will make it much more appealing to just start anew. (After all, who really cares what everyone was talking about in the General Forum a month ago, let alone six years or more prior.)
I may very well be wrong. I doubt it.
