So I finally went down the rabbit hole at the Wayback Machine to try to find as much stuff I'd posted earlier as I could, and then back it up here. These are my findings:
General On-Topic Discussions: I might be doing it wrong or something, but for me the Wayback Machine didn't go back any further than page 6.
My comprehensive thread full of SMiLE theories is gone, as far as I can tell. Luckily I had the foresight to share them to Facebook Notes, and I'll eventually post them on my blog. If there's interest, I can share them again here too.
The thread about album covers is only preserved up to page 13 of 22, around when we discussed the Friends cover
I was pleasantly surprised to see my thread on Melinda and the Solo album covers made it. I'll share the former here, Im not sure about the latter since interest was always lacking and it kinda fizzled out.
I honestly don't even know if I made any other stuff on this forum which I would have wanted to save--most of the time I was in the Off Topic Forums. But either way, it all seems to be gone now
Album Reviews: Luckily the album reviews section is pretty well-preserved. I found just about every review I'd made. I can't speak for the Book reviews section since I only had one of my own to search for (Catch a Wave.)
The Non-Beach Boy Music Discussions: This is spotty. I found some of my old threads which I would like to restart here, so that was nice. But there's still quite a few more that seem to be gone forever.
In particular, I was hoping to find the Cover Art reviews of Beatles albums. I spent a lot of time updating that thread and trying to say something interesting about each cover, so Im pretty disappointed.
Unless I missed them, my threads on "spoken word moments in songs" and on Wendy and Bonnie are gone as well. I know I made responses to other people's threads that are gone now since they weren't mirrored on the Wayback Machine.
All threads about album closers and openers seems to be gone.
The Political subforum: It's way out of date from where we left off.
None of my tomes about speeches and debates made it (I know everyone's just devastated
) Luckily I already have my own backups of those. I could tell soon after posting they weren't really popular and sharing them on a music forum's side-board wasn't the best idea. I'm slowly but surely working on backing them up to my political blog now, for the one or two of you who might be interested.
The Off Topic/Non-Music Forum: This is also spotty.
My Aquarian Age stuff miraculously made the cut (I don't know if you guys were interested or not, since nobody commented but last I checked the thread had almost 3,000 views.) In any case, I went back and expanded on this collection to where it's now 84 Chapters, a Prologue and Epilogue. I'm not gonna transfer that stuff over since it's so long and unclassifiable--it's on my blog now for anyone who might want to check it out.
My thread on Rome is gone. I really enjoyed that conversation and might have wanted to reuse some of my musings from there.
My Vertigo analysis is gone, but again I have a backup. I'll probably post that on my blog, unless there's interest for sharing it here.
The bullying thread is gone, but Im gonna talk about my experiences with this issue far more extensively on my blog as well. So it's a loss but whatever.
The Conspiracy Theories thread is gone, which sucks because there was some great discussion there and I wanted to go back and copy it at some point.
"unpopular cultural opinions" seems to be gone, and again as I recall I'd added to that thread and might have wanted to mine my responses in the future.
"Books!" is gone. Luckily, my friend mirrored part of the thread but there was still some great discussion later on we're now missing.
The "Guilty Pleasures" thread had a great discussion going, albeit somewhat off-topic, but only the first page is mirrored.