When are all of the fourms “purged” to make way for the new season? Are they archived anywhere? Or are they never cleared (I thought I saw them clear at one point)? Or do they just not display in the listings?
You control how many you want to see.
Currently it defaults to the past 30 days of active threads.
Look on each individual forum page… you’ll see some sort/filtering options.
They will never be removed, for now… and probalby not until the database backup takes more than 10-20 minutes or gets too big. Currently it takes about 30 seconds to do a full forum backup (18megs of data).