Part the migrator, but really because of the state of the database as it was. It used to just read out messages from the DB in the order they were stored - but this meant that lots of threads were screwed up (for whatever reason; not sure - probably not coping with deletions and so on, in the past. Relying on the order in which the database puts messages is a bad thing to do - some databases, including MySQL use blank space again for new data, if data is deleted).
So, I made the migration order messages by timestamp, which should sort everything out - except, for a short period a year or two ago, when something went wrong and everyone posted like it was 2001. Don't know why this was either, but it means that some threads wound up with their earliest date as this. I counted them at the time, but it was only a handful.
― Keith, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 07:25 (nineteen years ago)