# TPF Archive: Can’t find an old discussion? Start here **URL:** \ **Category:** Help\ **Tags:** tpf-archive\ **Created:** [February 17, 2026, 12:12pm UTC](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/tpf-archive-can-t-find-an-old-discussion-start-here/61 "2026-02-17T12:12:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jamal](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/user_avatar/www.thephilosophyforum.com/jamal/32/95_2.png) [@Jamal](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/u/Jamal)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2026, 12:12pm UTC](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/tpf-archive-can-t-find-an-old-discussion-start-here/61/1 "2026-02-17T12:12:42Z")
All discussions from the previous site, covering October 2015 to February 26 2026, are preserved in our read-only archive: [🏛 Go to the TPF Archive](https://archive.thephilosophyforum.com/) The new forum is a fresh start, so old threads are not hosted here. To find a past discussion, search the archive site. If you need help locating a specific thread, feel free to ask in this topic. ### Finding the archive: There is a permanent link to the archive in the sidebar menu, under “More”: ![screenshot-tpf-archive-in-sidebar-mh](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/uploads/thephilosophyforum/original/1X/935a5d30297ed10188586ce494cd2fbd44667d93.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Jamal](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/user_avatar/www.thephilosophyforum.com/jamal/32/95_2.png) [@Jamal](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/u/Jamal)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2026, 12:13pm UTC](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/tpf-archive-can-t-find-an-old-discussion-start-here/61/2 "2026-02-17T12:13:53Z")
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**Author:** ![Jamal](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/user_avatar/www.thephilosophyforum.com/jamal/32/95_2.png) [@Jamal](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/u/Jamal)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2026, 5:41am UTC](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/tpf-archive-can-t-find-an-old-discussion-start-here/61/3 "2026-02-22T05:41:43Z")
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**Author:** ![Jamal](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/user_avatar/www.thephilosophyforum.com/jamal/32/95_2.png) [@Jamal](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/u/Jamal)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2026, 9:35am UTC](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/tpf-archive-can-t-find-an-old-discussion-start-here/61/4 "2026-02-27T09:35:13Z")
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**Author:** ![Jamal](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/user_avatar/www.thephilosophyforum.com/jamal/32/95_2.png) [@Jamal](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/u/Jamal)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2026, 12:33pm UTC](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/tpf-archive-can-t-find-an-old-discussion-start-here/61/5 "2026-03-14T12:33:47Z")
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**Author:** ![Jamal](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/user_avatar/www.thephilosophyforum.com/jamal/32/95_2.png) [@Jamal](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/u/Jamal)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2026, 10:58pm UTC](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/tpf-archive-can-t-find-an-old-discussion-start-here/61/8 "2026-03-02T22:58:23Z")
New features just deployed on [archive.thephilosophyforum.com](https://archive.thephilosophyforum.com): - Category index pages - Category links in discussions - User profile pages, linked to from posts - ‘Back to top’ button for very long discussions - Comment permalinks: a small anchor link on each comment so you can share a direct link to a specific comment. [Go to the TPF archive](https://archive.thephilosophyforum.com) ---
**Author:** ![Jamal](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/user_avatar/www.thephilosophyforum.com/jamal/32/95_2.png) [@Jamal](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/u/Jamal)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2026, 11:51am UTC](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/tpf-archive-can-t-find-an-old-discussion-start-here/61/9 "2026-04-09T11:51:20Z")
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**Author:** ![Jamal](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/user_avatar/www.thephilosophyforum.com/jamal/32/95_2.png) [@Jamal](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/u/Jamal)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2026, 4:11pm UTC](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/tpf-archive-can-t-find-an-old-discussion-start-here/61/10 "2026-05-25T16:11:29Z")
Full-text search is now available on the TPF Archive, so you can search through all the posts—not just titles. Phrase search is supported: put your terms in quotation marks to find exact matches, e.g., `"categorical imperative"`. To try it, go to the search page and click on the **Full Text** tab. [TPF archive full-text search](https://archive.thephilosophyforum.com/search.html) Incidentally, the thing that compelled me to implement it was that I noticed from looking at Google Search Console that virtually all of the archive content has been removed by Google from their index (why exactly, I don’t know), so using Google to run searches is no longer an option.