This is an issue of how old the board software is. The manufacturer is working on an update. When OCF added and upgraded our servers to new hardware/software that is the fastest and best out there, these UBB boards software was incompatible with some of the new server drivers and more. (the single quotation mark / contraction appostorphe causing posts not to appear for example) The UBB people are aware that this is happening to them all over the web not just to us. They have not invested in upgrading their software in years and are paying catch up now. All these issues are because OCF has to be running the best, fastest and most contemporary servers in today's environment. The board software is being upgraded by the manufacturer and they should have a new version soon. This is not OCF editing or deleting your messages.

That being said, we alway "prune the boards" although we have been negligent about it lately as there never seems enough time to do every thing at OCF with the small staff we have. Old messages that are "just hope you get well" kind of things from many years ago, posts that have outdated scientific information in them, those are targets for pruning permanently. There are a quarter of a million posts here that are searchable. If those searches are going to happen quickly and the boards are going to give you pages quickly , the volume of the old posts has to be pruned down with regularity. This is something we have done for years.

Brian, stage 4 oral cancer survivor. OCF Founder and Director. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.