Posted by Addendum (72..2.45) on January 11, 2024 at 20:56:50:
In Reply to: Letter to visitors posted by old-timer on July 28, 2021 at 17:28:36:
When the VS website ran into trouble (lost internal access) in 2021, we tried to save old archives as much as we could, mostly via public http access (i.e. without internal ftp/ssh access). A lot of pages for poem forum were saved (all posts from 2007 onwards). However links for culture posts before 2020 didn't work properly, and as such we lost all of those pages.
I've been scouring Internet archive websites to see if there's any posts from pre-2020 culture forum as/when I have time. I'll repost them here if they're notable/memorable in some way.
PS. In the process of looking for old memorable posts, I will focus on those works that are truly lost since they were only posted in culture pre-2020. I will refrain from reposting the works that are still available elsewhere in accessible links. One example is poetry by nick nqnv. Many of her works are still available from old links in poem forum, for example: http://vsgardens.com/forum/poem/messages_Dec152015/2434.html
It doesn't mean her works are not memorable or not worth feeling nostalgic about.
And of course if there's something by her or someone else that was only posted in old culture or pre-2007 poem forum that has a chance to be lost forever, it will be reposted here too.