Stream: cranelift

Topic: archived new-backend stream history completely gone?

view this post on Zulip Chris Fallin (Oct 19 2021 at 21:42):

We archived #cranelift-new-backend just a few hours ago, but now I've discovered a possible downside to archival (vs... something else?): there's no way to view the history, as far as I can tell. That's a lot of valuable design discussion lost. Possibly we could bring it back and just rename to something else? cc @Till Schneidereit

view this post on Zulip Chris Fallin (Oct 19 2021 at 21:46):

Hmm, actually, a bit more searching (for message content I knew should be there) shows that the stream exists at this hidden URL: here as fd9a1d4!DEACTIVATED!cranelift-new-backend. Maybe we could rename it to "cranelift-backends-2020" or something similarly date-stamped to make clear it's obsolete?

view this post on Zulip Till Schneidereit (Oct 20 2021 at 10:00):

hum, that is indeed unfortunate—it'd be much nicer if Zulip had a way to prevent posting in a channel, but without making it so hard to find. Even more unfortunate is that currently there's no way to undo the archiving, see this help entry: https://zulip.com/help/archive-a-stream

I wish I had seen this before, including the "In most cases, we recommend renaming streams rather than archiving them" :frown:

Archive a stream (Zulip Help Center)
Archiving a stream will immediately unsubscribe all users from the stream, remove the stream from search and other typeaheads, and remove the stream's messages from All messages. | Archiving a stream does not delete a stream's messages. Users will still be able to find any given message by searching for it. However, links to messages and topics in the stream may or may not continue to work. | In most cases, we recommend renaming streams rather than archiving them. | We're here to help! Email us at support@zulip.com with questions, feedback, or feature requests.

view this post on Zulip bjorn3 (Oct 20 2021 at 10:42):

could you mail support to see if they can manually undo it?

view this post on Zulip Till Schneidereit (Oct 20 2021 at 11:07):

At least worth a try, yes. I emailed support, so we'll see if there's anything they can do

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