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    Flikka_FlikkaFlikka_Flikka Posts: 439 Member
    edited April 14
    I agree with those wishing the Legacy Threads category had sub-folders. As it is, I'm afraid that in nominating our favorite threads to live on in the next forum, we've condemned them to an early death by burial on page 5+ of that category. I think individual users' creation showcases and stories should be kept in a separate folder, at least. Nothing against those threads or the people who enjoy making and following them, but it seems wrong that the most frequently-updated personal "vanity" threads should get to gobble up all the prime front-page real estate at the expense of actual open-participation discussions.
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    Flikka_FlikkaFlikka_Flikka Posts: 439 Member
    edited April 15
    I know some of Nominated Threads have been rebooted over at AHQ, but it's not the same. The general discussion threads over there tend to be barely readable due to certain users' posting habits, IMO, and I'm not aware there's any way to hide content by user.
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    EA_CadeEA_Cade Posts: 7,349 EA Community Manager
    soocoolsim wrote: »
    @EA_Cade , after these forums are closed, what will happen to the threads and direct messages? Will they be automatically deleted forever?

    I’m especially curious about the direct messages which I and others have used extensively for one-to-one as well as group chats.

    Would / could there be an opportunity for us to delete both the public and private direct message threads ourselves prior to closure?

    Everything related to this site other than the nominated threads that move to the new EA Forums will be erased when the site goes down.

    I'm not aware of any plans to allow users to export/delete DMs before that time.
    February11 wrote: »
    Will the link to the new forum be posted here before shut down, or on AHQ?

    I'll share the link to the new EA Forums here as soon as we have one to share.
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    Tag365Tag365 Posts: 7 New Member
    Very disappointing. Old content won't transfer over unless requested. Also I only found out about this announcement today, so I can't take the steps to associate the account with EA Answers HQ to make my content associated with the right account. The deadline was in March.
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    Tag365Tag365 Posts: 7 New Member
    Is Answers HQ going to be renamed EA forums?
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    EA_CadeEA_Cade Posts: 7,349 EA Community Manager
    Tag365 wrote: »
    Is Answers HQ going to be renamed EA forums?

    This transition is independent of Answers HQ.
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    SimburianSimburian Posts: 6,914 Member
    It could be that the Web Archive has saved a lot of the pages from the forum. Years ago I got information about Sims 2 sites and creator links from earlier forums from it. Not sure what it saves nowadays.
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    GalacticGalGalacticGal Posts: 28,653 Member
    I am trying to look at it as being like moving from Sims2 forums to Sims 3 forums and then to these forums. We'll just have to see how different it is. EA seems to have taken measures to help us all make this move. We still have access to the Nominated Threads. I think we'll be okay.
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    Nikkei_SimmerNikkei_Simmer Posts: 9,430 Member
    @GalacticGal - I hope so. I wasn't here for the last move from the old forums to this one. (I only joined the forums here in 2017) so all this moving is new to me. Fingers crossed that it all goes smoothly.
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    GalacticGalGalacticGal Posts: 28,653 Member
    @GalacticGal - I hope so. I wasn't here for the last move from the old forums to this one. (I only joined the forums here in 2017) so all this moving is new to me. Fingers crossed that it all goes smoothly.

    I think most of us have grown rather settled into this forum. I have to say after the initial announcement I had some emotions that surprised me. But once the shock wore off, I'm now able to just go with the flow. I was able to retrieve copies of my Cantrell stories, that I share. I had a terrible moment when my faithful laptop up and died, taking all of them with it. Only some were retrieved. But I am also making hard copies of them lest another device of mine decides to take a dive. I also realized very early this morning, that since no updates to What Happened In Your Game Today? after a certain date, which was last month, will follow, meaning we'll have to repost them later, gives me a rare chance to switch out a picture with a little less sense of urgency, if you will. I think we're all going to be fine.
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    GalacticGalGalacticGal Posts: 28,653 Member
    Tag365 wrote: »
    Very disappointing. Old content won't transfer over unless requested. Also I only found out about this announcement today, so I can't take the steps to associate the account with EA Answers HQ to make my content associated with the right account. The deadline was in March.

    I was on the road and literally unable to even check my emails so I hear you.
    You can download (free) all three volumes of my Night Whispers Star Trek Fanfiction here: http://galacticgal.deviantart.com/gallery/ You'll need to have a pdf reader. New websites: http://www.trekkiefanfiction.com/st-tos.php
    http://www.getfreeebooks.com/star-trek-original-series-fan-fiction-trilogy/
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