# Should we be allowed to resurrect years-old threads?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/should-we-be-allowed-to-resurrect-years-old-threads/48519>\
**Category:** Meta Discussion\
**Created:** [October 16, 2020, 8:33pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/should-we-be-allowed-to-resurrect-years-old-threads/48519 "2020-10-16T20:33:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![mbauman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mbauman/32/31082_2.png) [@mbauman](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mbauman)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2020, 9:53pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/should-we-be-allowed-to-resurrect-years-old-threads/48519/9 "2020-10-16T21:53:17Z")

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That warning already appears.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/9/f/9fd612d412f2ba0427a3110f0ec431b9cb30ae20.png)

I’ve tried to get the Discourse software to support putting a banner across old threads, but I got a negative reaction from the devs there about that.

> [@Can we mark some discussions on Julia Discourse as outdated in v. 1.x?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/can-we-mark-some-discussions-on-julia-discourse-as-outdated-in-v-1-x/35217):
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> I quite often search on Julia Discourse for solution to my problems and from time to time I’m stuck with problem, is solution given before August 2018 is still good? Since Julia 1.0 change a lot of things, some good solutions for 0.x can be suboptimal or even quit bad in current versions. My problem is not that old code doesn’t running. If it had an error I know that is outdated and maybe not the best way to do things. My problem is that it can be not idiomatic and slow in comparasion to properl…

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