Topic Yearly Auto Archive

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This is the first draft of the plugin mentioned here: Anyone interested in a mass automatic archiving plugin?

Basically on a certain (configurable) day of the year all topics posted before a certain (configurable) day get marked as Archived. This happens once a year.

Example on the 120th day of the year all posts from before the 30th day of the year will get archived.

https://github.com/eriko/auto-archive

Work to do:

  • Change to a list of days of the year (60, 120,180,240,300) and days afterwards to run (30)
  • Figure out an interface to select categories to effect or not effect.
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Why would one need to mass-archive topics?

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In our case we are a college and conversations that span over a year gather kruft of no longer valid information. It is better to begin again the fight over smoking on campus again in the context of current policies. The old conversation still exists for reference.

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Another valid example is, a game company has a beta or alpha for a game. Three years later, the game is no longer like the beta or alpha and much different, if anyone even plays it any more? So why keep the alpha and beta categories at all…

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Another example is using Discourse as a discussion platform for a lecture or course:

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I found a small issue in that messages are just another form of Topics. So the code has been updated to only effect Archetype.default Topics.

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Отличная идея! Я бы скорее выступил за архивирование целой категории по истечении определённого срока.

Пример использования: категория «Срочные новости».

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Несколько устаревших категорий новостных сводок :flushed_face: Зачем вообще кто-то делает такую структуру?

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Нет, я имею в виду архивировать посты в категории по истечении определённого периода времени. Посты в категории новостей, например, по своей природе временны, поэтому это хороший пример использования. У категории может быть свойство автоматического архивирования.

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