I was looking for an older thread...I don't see it on this page, so I assume it's been archived. Unfortunately, Help talk:CirrusSearch/LQT Archive 1 is showing up as blank for me. -- Beland (talk) 01:26, 25 June 2024 (UTC)
Topic on Help talk:CirrusSearch
That's intentionally blank, as a result of an untidy refactoring in 2015 that's not worth fixing now. This page uses Structured Discussions, which doesn't have the concept of archiving, and instead uses an infinite scroll system.
Aha! Hmm, that seems somewhat poor. There's no indication in the UI that scrolling down to the bottom of the page and staying there will show more threads, and there's no apparent facility for searching the entire history of the page? The URL I loaded was:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help_talk:CirrusSearch#Relevance_52070
It seems like that should take me to the thread if it's on the page, but I can't tell if it is or isn't, and searching on my username doesn't really work because some threads are collapsed. -- Beland (talk) 03:40, 25 June 2024 (UTC)
That would be Topic:S8cojikw0xzel2u8 (found via your contributions). The URL seems to have dated from way back when LiquidThreads was involved, and stopped working in 2015 when this page was migrated.
The chance of this getting fixed, realistically, is zero, since both discussion systems are deprecated and going to be removed someday.
Ah, whew, I was a bit worried these were going to be spreading to other wikis. 8)