Older threads on vgchartz are missing and the search function only goes back 90 days.

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Shadow1980 said:

The 90-day limit in the search page has been there ever since I joined the forum 12 years ago. Oddly enough, it actually will bring up threads older than 90 days if you selection the 90 days option, but it's kind of weird how it sorts them, and you only get a single page of results, so you need to be really specific.

Also, if you get to a thread through Google, if they link to a page past the first one, it might not show because users can customize the number of posts per page. Google always links to thread pages by the default 10 posts per page, so if you have it set to 25 per page like I do and you find a link to a tenth page in a 100-reply thread, it won't load because replies #91-100 will be on the fourth page in your settings, and since that tenth page wouldn't exist in your settings you just get redirected back to the home page if you try to load it. You would need to alter the URL to start at the first page and go from there, or guess which page the post would on under your settings.

Unless your post history got wiped in that hacking incident from a couple of years ago (I had over 7000 posts prior to Oct. 2022 wiped from existence, including posts with charts from old NPD threads), your posts should still be there, but the site can be screwy when searching both within the site's own search page and through Google.

This is because it looks at threads that have been updated in the last 90 days (as in, new posts), not created during that timeframe.