Question for Darryl - how persistent are posts?

[smroush]

I frequently bookmark posts in the HealthUnlocked forum. However I always wonder about the persistence of posts - are they likely to be around in 5 or 10 years and accessible via the original bookmark URLs?

[FCoffey]

Darryl is the final authority, but as far as I can tell posts stay up unless they are removed for some cause.

Here's an example of one from 3 years ago:

healthunlocked.com/advanced...

I don't find any posts older than 3 years but that may be the age of this forum, or an artifact of how I am searching.

[Darryl Partner]

Hi. Our community is only three years old, and most of our activity occurred during the last two years. Posts and replies can be deleted by the authors.

[Hidden in reply to Darryl]

True Darryl. Question. My understanding is that when a search engine picks up any post, it is forever available somewhere outside of the group. Is this correct?

GD

[Darryl Partner in reply to Hidden]

Not correct. You decide whether the full body of a post is available outside of our platform, including to search engines. That’s one of the reasons I think our platform is brilliant. Read this article: support.healthunlocked.com/...

[Hidden in reply to Darryl]

Excellent. Thank you.

GD