Eventually the servers go away, to the server heaven up in the sky. :)

Don't worry. The NSA keeps a forever-backup.

Perhaps we just need a thread created date, so the people it annoys can avoid them. I don't mind them personally, but I sure would like a popup if I am about to reply to someone from our distant past.

Oooh! Sounded like wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff! Time travel divination.

It was confusing as heck to me when I came to GOG, how continuing an old thread about certain subject was considered a definite no-no. Reason being that on another forum where I had spent time, it was the total opposite: the biggest mistake you could make there was to open a new thread about a subject that already existed, even years before. I think doing it repeatedly could even get you banned there. Before opening a new thread, you were always supposed to search the forum first if there was an old discussion about the subject, and continue that one.

I agree though that replying to someone's old message may be quite odd, unless it is still very relevant to the original question. But continuing an old thread with new information about the subject... I'd consider it even preferable to opening a new thread because then you have all the needed information in that one thread.

Then again, no biggie either way, just interesting how different the policies can be on different forums.

Also, how people consider their own local rules as some universal, logical, self-evident, "common sense". Which is a broader isssue, but nicely illustrated by this matter.

OK, this thread is getting old now, let's lock it up.

I'm just hoping that someone doesn't necro THIS thread in like two years!

Let me take note of that.

Preferably with some barely on topic comment about how they don't really care about the topic.

Bookmarked for great justice.

JMich is right as he usually is. It's not the threads, it's the people. The same with double posts: sometimes, it feels constructive to ping two people (such as in a release thread when users are asking questions about the game), and you can only ping one per post; other times, a single asshole bumps their pet threads everyone else has given up on each damn day with a content-free post. But that's what we have mods for. Don't make legitimate buyers' experience worse on account of pirates. Don't make legitimate posters' experience worse on account of a random asshole.

Not sure how this would be implemented. Probably a pain for the GOG admins, and would net them more grief than praise in the end. Not that I'm a fan of the typical necro thread, since it's usually worthless.

What I'd really like is a "Mark All Posts Read" button, so that I can clear the slate and track unreads more consistently. But that's a whole other topic.

I don't understand this negativity towards necroposting. Why making 100th thread about "What do you play now?" when a person can just post in old thread and reviving it by being displayed on page 1.

But I agree that it is tricky to notice post's date sometimes.

I 100% agree. I LOVE necroposts. It gives you a blast from the past, a sniff of history and something new on top of something old.

And they're spectacular when people say things that turn out to be really dumb with some hindsight (something like "I'm not buying anything else from GOG. They'll be gone in a year. I'm sticking with the future. I'm only buying from OnLive now."*)

*not a real quote

P.S. Holy smokes! Onlive is still a thing! I thought they went bust a while ago.

Oh how I wish forums (proper plural: fora) where a thing back when Billy Gates said that "640K ought to be enough for anybody"...
He claims there's no citation and that's a rumor. Well, let me check that thread, Billy.