Two Cans & String

{ "thread_id": "11372", "posts": [ { "id": "1147751", "time": "1622411337", "html": "I used to be fairly active on here, and deleted a bunch of old messages that I'd love to re-read. I'm talking like 7-8 years ago. <br />It might be a long-shot, but are old messages archived anywhere, and is there any possible way for me to restore them? <br />Thanks in advance.", "user": "smilingsnakes" }, { "id": "1147759", "time": "1622417919", "html": "I hope so. Unfortunately, too many times is the number of times I have accidentally deleted an inactive message chat that I want.", "user": "wlicky" }, { "id": "1147773", "time": "1622461927", "html": "AFAIK, there exists no queue for deleted messages. I think you should also hope that a website doesn\u2019t keep deleted content for 7-8 years anyway ;-)", "user": "sophrosyne" }, { "id": "1149692", "time": "1623444686", "html": "Don\u2019t scare me again.", "user": "wlicky" }, { "id": "1149696", "time": "1623447457", "html": "Blake said one copy of every message was created and distributed to each person in a chat thread, so every person gets a unique entry they can individually delete themselves. So it's feasibly possible to restore a deleted message if any other person in the chat thread had not yet deleted the message.<br /><br /> But locating that message even if it wasn't deleted, especially considering anonymity and blocking and such is not really feasible itself. So likely not", "user": "kylljoy" }, { "id": "1150200", "time": "1623795564", "html": "Then how do I stop myself from accidentally deleting old message threads I want to keep?<br /><br />Don't say, "That's your own problem."", "user": "wlicky" }, { "id": "1150255", "time": "1623809955", "html": "Then I shall say nothing at all!", "user": "blake" }, { "id": "1150256", "time": "1623810615", "html": "Blake has a great sense of humor", "user": "samsung23" }, { "id": "1150318", "time": "1623851058", "html": "<div style=\"margin:20px; background-image:url(/images/light.png);\"><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:5px;\"><a href=\"/users/blake\">Blake</a> said:</div><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:20px;\">Then I shall say nothing at all!</div></div><br />Oh! But you have said something!", "user": "aprzn123" } ], "users": { "smilingsnakes": { "name": "SmilingSnakes", "key": "smilingsnakes", "url": "/users/smilingsnakes", "avatar": "/images/white.png", "rankClass": "civilian", "rankText": "", "posts": "219" }, "wlicky": { "name": "W_Licky", "key": "wlicky", "url": "/users/wlicky", "avatar": "/uploads/drawn/41631.png", "rankClass": "civilian", "rankText": "", "posts": "10438" }, "sophrosyne": { "name": "Sophrosyne", "key": "sophrosyne", "url": "/users/sophrosyne", "avatar": "/uploads/drawn/3473.png", "rankClass": "comrade", "rankText": "АДМИНИСТРАТОР", "posts": "3498" }, "kylljoy": { "name": "Kylljoy", "key": "kylljoy", "url": "/users/kylljoy", "avatar": "/uploads/drawn/41668.png", "rankClass": "civilian", "rankText": "", "posts": "4848" }, "blake": { "name": "Blake", "key": "blake", "url": "/users/blake", "avatar": "/uploads/drawn/16553.png", "rankClass": "webmaster", "rankText": "Webmaster", "posts": "3033" }, "samsung23": { "name": "Samsung23", "key": "samsung23", "url": "/users/samsung23", "avatar": "/uploads/drawn/27967.png", "rankClass": "civilian", "rankText": "", "posts": "2075" }, "aprzn123": { "name": "aprzn123", "key": "aprzn123", "url": "/users/aprzn123", "avatar": "/uploads/drawn/23416.png", "rankClass": "civilian", "rankText": "", "posts": "6932" } }, "page_num": 1, "locked": 0, "total_pages": 1 }

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