Kaga said
The trouble with this is that you really can't get to old threads unless you still have links to them bookmarked or something. Sure the calendar looks complete when you're on the site index, but it becomes a lot spottier once you try looking through one of the forums. You'd never be able to find one of your threads in there, and, since you can't log in to get to your subscriptions, you'll need a link from somewhere.And even then, you probably won't be able to read past the 1st page. :/But yeah, if you just wanna reminisce by looking at the site index or you do happen to have the link to something important saved, it's a good way to salvage at least of the oldGuild. I've used it.
Yeah, it's always a problem. Certain captures of RPG allow you to go into the Free/Casual/Advanced boards' pages (and their OOC subboards), and if you're lucky the RP you want was in the capture on Page 1, 2, etc. when it happened. Otherwise the best bet is to google titles and "roleplayer guild" to find the URL. Google caches of old Guild are all probably deleted, but the URL should still be right.
My RP was actually surprisingly lucky, we lost a lot of material, but we had almost all the pages of the IC and the majority of a side thread. The first page and all or near all the bio pages still existed. Some images and YouTube videos were lost, but that's not essential.
And Wayback is an awesome way of backing up pages. One can update the same one frequently, and it's easy to find again.