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4. They only keep about 30 days in the "Posts" page ("My Posts" tab), despite what it says at the top of the page
Sun Aug 17, 2025, 06:08 PM
Sunday
Only your posts which were posted or replied to in the last 90 days are shown.


False, 30 days, or 29 days.

My last post saved on that "page" (happens to be on page 2, the final page of it for me) is dated July 18.

This might not be what you are asking about, but it's important information to me anyway -- I save the Posts page about every 20 days by selecting them all, and do a copy and paste (and selecting keep original formatting) into a Word file dedicated for that purpose.

Then I do some formatting -- get rid of bold, make it arial 8, "paragraph" spacing 1.5 lines, etc.

The higher frequency, about every 20 days, is because the last week or so have dates like "12:22 PM" "YESTERDAY" "MONDAY" "TUESDAY", so when I scrape those again 3 weeks later, they are all replaced by dates like "Aug 16" etc. which are much preferable for a long-time archive.

It's quite a bookkeeping chore, actually. But a very important tool for finding old posts that I spent a lot of time writing.

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