They may not have been deleted, but what they HAVE done is made it impossible to search for older posts. The only way to find older ones is by manually going back through every post.

That said, I do know of at least one person who has had all old journals permanently disappear so yes, I would advise saving anything you want to keep.

Urg, sorry to hear that. Thanks for the heads up.

As far as websites go, this one seems to be slow with many glitches.

But it's free, so I guess I can't complain too much.

isha, unfortunately, DS is really messed up. For whatever reasons, they are many many bugs & glitches. I, along w/many others, haven't rec'd an email alert in 20 months. Some people's journals are 'missing' meaning they're there, but they can't access them. Some have disappeared completely. I had bookmarked certain threads that are several years old and I can still get to them via my bookmark. But search is basically useless.

The who is online feature is totally broken. Mine shows people online who haven't been on DS in years.

These issues and many others are frequently discussed in the DS member's group. http://www.dailystrength.org/c/Members-Community/support-group You might consider posting this in that group.

The search page sucks and always has. Before they apparently lost all data prior to Jan 2013, it worked sometimes & sometimes it didn't. The old posts more than likely haven't been deleted. Its just when DS did stuff w/their servers in Oct 2011 and then again a few months ago, the end result was finally (just a couple of weeks ago, after more fixes, a little bit faster site. Sadly one of the 'side effects' was NOTHING shows up in a search past Jan 2013.

If you go to the 'help' link at the top right corner of the page & click on the last tab, 'contact us and site status' you will see a list of 'issues'. Some of those issues date back almost two years!

Right under where it says Contact Us and Feedback, you'll see a link to feedback form. If you haven't filled one of those out, you might want to do that as well.

However, I wouldn't hold my breath as DS, IMHO, is less than responsive.

It's really sad that DS has deteriorated to what it is now. Especially with chat gone and all their other issues, it makes it a lot harder to be supportive.

Thanks All..I was just sooo frustrated when I only see few recents posts when I searched by my name.
@Khrysalis..I have posted many times before my breakup/during my breakup and after my breakup with my narc x.
Sadly, all that has gone...

Thanks all..For the support..
@Livin..I am talking about my reaaaallllly old posts which I posted during the first few days of joining DS...All that is just gone..Kaput... :-(

Your posts are more than likely NOT gone...just hard to find.

Sadly DS doesn't give an option to enter in a page number and go directly to that page, nor do they give options of skipping more than two pages at a time. But...

There is a way to find them.

Its tedious, but if you go all the way to the end of the group posts by scrolling down to the bottom of the main page it will show you how many pages there are. Right now it goes to page 1002.

Click on the very last one. Keep clicking every two pages until you get to the time frame where you joined, then go page by page.

I hope you voice your concerns to DS via the feedback. Maybe if enough of us let them know, they will do something.

Thank You Thank You MTC... :-D
I got all the posts when i searched like you said..

I have put my feedback in hel but no reply till now..Hope they do resolve it soon..

Isha, all of my journals were jettisoned a few months back. I reported it, but they replied that there was a 'glitch' and the messages were not retrievable. I was pretty crushed. Not happy with ds in that regard, but I won't leave because that would mean leaving my little 'family' who understands me in a way my real family cannot.

Glad to see you around... :-)