Anyone knows how 2 years of posts disappeared?

Hi everyone,

I don't know what surprised me the most. That 2 years of valuable information completely dissapeared from this forum, or that there's no explanation in this regard anywhere. I've tried to contact the admin at forumadmin@niosforum.com, but my messages keep bouncing back. So, I guess all I can do is post this message and hope that someone has any information and is willing to share.

I apologize if someone feels this should be in to the General Discussion forum, but let me explain why I'm posting it here:

- this is the place where I sent almost all of my messages so far

- this is the place I know most of the active people

- this part of the forum is *very* active

- (I guess) the most valuable posts here were written in the last 2 years -- the rest is almost too old to be usable

- on the entire internet, this is (was) the place to go for questions about nios2-uClinux. The wiki is excellent for getting-started and hands-on tutorials, but if you want your questions answered you have to come in here.

So, it would be great if anyone could please share any information on things like:

- what happened?

- why can't the last two years of information be recovered?

- will it happen again?

- can we get the information back? (it's still there somewhere, even if in Google's cache...)

- should we move to a more reliable forum?

tip: I've been using this trick to read some of the vanished messages: do a Google search for some of the words you remember that were on a given topic (like: niosforum fifoed_avalon_uart), and then click the cached hyperlinks on the results list. As for me, I'm printing everything on paper from now on. ;)

Hope to hear from you all on this matter.

Cheers,

Ricardo.