In whatever form the old thread(s) return, they will most likely NOT allow any new posts. Clearly the performance gain achieved by cutting back 'long threads' is a huge gain to the DISBOARDS as a whole so there will likely be a thread length 'limit' declared.
I am assured they will return in some form -- my guess is an archive format - but I cannot say for certain at this point.
This is all conjecture on my part until a proper announcement is made by the webmasters.
With all of that in mind, yes, I renamed this thread... hope that's ok,
Knox