As the discussion in this thread lead to almost a 10-1 vote against closing the archives the Forum Council, along with the staff team, have decided that webe removing the archives as previously planned.This isn't to say that they will remain here indefinitely - as was stated in the above thread, some of the content could (and should) be migrated to the wiki.We will undoubtedly looking to shrink the archives in future, as the database for this forum is considerable in size and we will look to trim it down wherever possible to improve both performance and maintainability. When this time comes, I expect that it will be approached in a different manner to the way it was approached this time.Thank you all for your input on the matter, it was greatly appreciated.