Hi, is there a place to ask for opening old thread? If not, do we have a mean like DM to @moderators to suggest it? If also not, I opened this as a meta thread to request opening old thread.

Hi, I would like to open Installation of Rust with x86_64-unknown-linux-musl target to ask the author a few questions.

You can just make a new thread and mention the people in question, along with a link to the old thread. For now, I opened the old thread.

Thanks Alice. I sent him an an DM after opening this topic. Will reply in the thread I mentioned if I got reply from him.

Flag it. Click the ... button, then click the :black_flag: flag, then choose "something else."

Thanks for creating this thread. I've been wondering about this too and I don't quite get why threads are locked. It seems unwelcoming to me — an unnecessary barrier put up just when I've found great information that I want to comment on or ask further questions about. [image] alice: You can ju…

[image] mgeisler: Thanks for creating this thread. I've been wondering about this too and I don't quite get why threads are locked. As I understand it, this is because otherwise people routinely post stuff in old threads that really should go in a new thread. Some things make sense to post in…

To elaborate furthre on what alice just said, I've observed that many newcomers to the forum search for a topic and find a thread that's 3 to 6 years old, then blithely resurrect it, probably not realizing that they are now in zombieland — that the original posters may no longer be active in Rust (o…

[image] alice: As I understand it, this is because otherwise people routinely post stuff in old threads that really should go in a new thread I can see that happen for sure! However, can we not live with those mistakes as they occur instead of trying to lock things down and make everything ti…

[image] mgeisler: I see posting in an old thread as equivalent to posting a new thread plus notifying potentially interested people. It heavily depends what kind of thread we're talking about. If there is a thread in the help category and the thread has been marked as solved, then that person…

[image] mgeisler: Even if none of the original thread participants listen/care about the question, the post still brings the thread to the surface and all the new forum participants can now see it and offer help and advice. I generally don’t want to comment on a thread until I’ve read it thro…

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