The same thing happened to me with an old pokeberry thread. Like a secret garden, there seems to be a secret Garden Web which can be googled and added to, but which no longer is linked to the current site.

Claire

GW saves a maximum of 67 pages on any one forum. When that number is reached, the older pages and threads vanish from the forum.

At this time, there are the maximum number of saved pages on the New England Forum, and anything beyond that no longer exist on GW or this forum.

The oldest post on page 67 dates back to 3/10/08.

The reason you where able to find the thread that is no longer available directly on the forum, is that you did a google search on the particular subject.

Older pages from GW and from any other forum from this site or any other site are archived in google and remain archived for a period of time.

How long they stay archived depends on how many additional pages are no longer saved from a particular forum or site on the web.

Eventually, the thread that you where able to find on your google search will also vanish from the google archives and no longer be able to be read.
How quickly that will happen can vary.

It can take a few weeks, months or even years, but it will vanish at some point.

If you want to save the thread for info to refer to to at a later date or for others to read, and you could only find it with a google search; it would be best to copy and paste the thread and save it that way. Otherwise, there will come a time that you may want to refer to the info and you will not be able to find the thread, even with a google search.

Fran