Cruise around the forums

and you see long dead threads on page 1, 

while recent threads are lost to the quagmire of unsorted pages of threads

Archiving & Purging means we could get a better mix of Live vs Dead threads,

and a lower overall thread count means faster running servers.

Considering the mass exodus of forum using members in the past 2-3 years, I would speculate that the majority, if not the overwhelming majority, of threads are 3+ years dead.  So purge them out of the live system to a different archived server- If we want them we can still link or quote them from there