What is the purpose of Archives in forums?

mikelowrey

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As the title says, I am looking to understand better the purpose of it and also to understand if it offers advantages or disadvantages. looking for great answers! thanks!
 
Adventage is, you don't lose content which at some point of your forum history was relevant to you. Example: XF1.0 showcase threads are extremly outdated, so an archive fits this case. Vice versa, if you drop a product, but want to keep its references, you would create an archive aswell. Let's say XF was going to stop distributing RM. They then could archive everything related to RM. In case something changes in the future, they could easily return to a good state.
Disadventage is of course, if you don't setup your forum correctly, people could get redirected often to archives, which is misleading most of the time, unless someone is explicitly searching for ancient content.
 
Thanks @S Thomas for the explanation

Disadventage is of course, if you don't setup your forum correctly, people could get redirected often to archives, which is misleading most of the time, unless someone is explicitly searching for ancient content.

So in order to avoid this, does xenForo offers something within so that we don't make that mistake?
 
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