I'm not 100% certain how Google/Wayback Machine do their caching, so take what I have to say with a grain of salt.

By putting the new forums online without restoring the old database first, they ensured the old caches would eventually expire as Google finds new pages with the same ID as the cached page and replaces it with the new BT posts. This is expected, normal behavior for Google, but it unfortunately destroys Google's history of the old BT.

Please don't take this the wrong way, as I don't mean it to come across as bashing or anything, but given the history of events over at OBT, I think it's important people keep informed about that community's continued reliance on a single point of failure.

As far as I can tell, very little has changed in terms of how BT's administration of its server hardware and software has changed in the months since coming back online. A month ago, Mike Weins said the forum software would be upgraded to the latest version (they are 3 versions behind right now), and then they'd look at the old database issue.

Since that post:

http://brain.hastypastry.net/forums/...?t=3046&page=3

It was changed to "over the holidays" the software would be upgraded. Then a week ago, it was "we'll upgrade the software soon." Meanwhile, the software version they are on remains vulnerable to known security issues. Because the entire community remains in the hands of one very busy, busy person.

And still no work on the old database.

John