old Tektronix forum (https://forum.tek.com/) has been dead - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / testgear

author: squadchannel
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 12, 2024, 07:08:08 am
content: Now(Dec/12/2024), try to access the old Tek forum(phpBB based,forum.tek.com), will be redirected to totally useless new TekTalk.according to WaybackMachine, it appears to remain as of July; it has already changed as of October.I should have backed up.What did you do, Tek? WHYYYYYYY

author: coromonadalix
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 12, 2024, 12:14:20 pm
content: all good things come to and end ...

author: fenugrec
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 18, 2024, 02:47:39 pm
content: What a pain. Back when they started threatening to "upgrade" and close the old site, I had exchanged a few emails with one of their online-community-managers or whatever, arguing to keep the old site around, at least as a read-only archive. I will contact them again , I recommend multiple people do the same. Hopefully they didn't perma-delete everything yet.I had also tried real hard to wget / curl / scrape the old forum, but they had very aggressive clownflare settings that kept denying everything. Wasted a bunch of time for no result.

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 26, 2025, 01:03:19 am
content: Did they copy the old posts over?Keysight forum just shut down entirely:https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/keysight-community-forums-discontinued/

author: fenugrec
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 26, 2025, 01:25:09 pm
content: Quote from: EEVblog on March 26, 2025, 01:03:19 amAFAIK no. They're barely giving signs of life on the new forum at all, and search is mostly broken. I have not received replies to any direct inquiries either.

author: TERRA Operative
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 27, 2025, 01:07:54 am
content: The cynic in me is certain Tek want their new forum to fail so they can justify removing it entirely....

author: coppercone2
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 27, 2025, 01:16:14 am
content: I guess this is a good reason why you should not give corporate documents for free, it looks like they will back it up and try to sell it to people. I think the general wisdom would be to self publishSome greedy dick saw it as a resource he can steal.Basically the same old advice : CC your valuable emails.Does anyone think that this means there is less innovation going on, and instead its a totally different group of people that are focusing on making money in a entirely different way then the company is known for ? I wonder if this all started with R&D budget cuts.

author: emart5
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: July 01, 2025, 05:03:22 pm
content: Quote from: fenugrec on March 26, 2025, 01:25:09 pmUnfortunately, I've discovered that too.Too bad, I had collected many links to very helpful Tek Forum posts in a help list. This list has now become useless.Martin

author: kmoonwalker
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 01, 2025, 05:12:43 pm
content: Quote from: fenugrec on December 18, 2024, 02:47:39 pmcost of keeping it running as closed content would be negligent or minimal given nowadays hosting prices, etcreal cost comes from moderation etcsame as Keysight they also had an option to load all to archive.org and donate them a bit from time to timestill this is a sad news