# cannot view old threads
**URL:** https://community.netdata.cloud/t/cannot-view-old-threads/3021
**Category:** General
**Tags:** question
**Created:** [June 20, 2022, 12:01pm UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/cannot-view-old-threads/3021 "2022-06-20T12:01:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@ml35](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/ml35)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2022, 12:01pm UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/cannot-view-old-threads/3021/1 "2022-06-20T12:01:15Z")
I haven’t log in here for a year or so. I went to notifications, I click the thread, but it tells me it doesn’t exist or is private.
How can I view the replies to my post?
> [@Make smartd\_log plugin also search /var/lib/smartmontools on ubuntu instead of failing when /var/log/smartd is missing](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/make-smartd-log-plugin-also-search-var-lib-smartmontools-on-ubuntu-instead-of-failing-when-var-log-smartd-is-missing/1627):
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> ubuntu smartd version 6.5+svn4324-1ubuntu0 and later (ubuntu 18.04 and newer) does not run with -A but still writes metrics into /var/lib/smartmontools csv files it would be useful to make the plugin also search for this path instead of the default /var/log/smartd, which would allow smartd support out of the box from ubuntu 18.04 man page -A PREFIX, --attributelog=PREFIX If this option is not specified, attribute information is written to files ´/var/lib/smartmontools/attrlog.MODEL-…
> [@False alarms detection](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/false-alarms-detection/1607):
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> I get flooded with false alarms. I spend a lot of time adjusting the thresholds but I never get the perfect setup. I am thinking how to reduce the number of alarms. Using solely the threshold criteria is not enough and sometimes even misleading! For example, a 10min\_disk\_backlog of 5000ms is perfectly expected on a server that does some work it was designed for, but a 200ms on the same server when idle it would indicate a hardware disk issue. Setting the threshold at 6000ms would eliminate the…
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### Author:  [@Tasos\_Katsoulas](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/Tasos_Katsoulas)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2022, 6:36pm UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/cannot-view-old-threads/3021/2 "2022-06-20T18:36:38Z")
Hi @ml35, yes we deprecated this category because all the feature request are now submitted to GitHub
1. [Feature request form for Netdata cloud](https://github.com/netdata/netdata-cloud/issues/new?assignees=&labels=feature+request%2Cneeds+triage&template=FEAT_REQUEST.yml&title=%5BFeat%5D%3A+)
2. [Feature request form for Netdata Agent](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/issues/new?assignees=&labels=feature+request%2Cneeds+triage&template=FEAT_REQUEST.yml&title=%5BFeat%5D%3A+)
Tasos,
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### Author:  [@ml35](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/ml35)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2022, 12:06pm UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/cannot-view-old-threads/3021/3 "2022-06-21T12:06:45Z")
is there any way I can view those discussions or are they gone for good? I invested quite a lot of time thinking and writing to forums about idea in the false alarm detection thread.
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### Author:  [@lupimiguel](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/lupimiguel)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2022, 1:29pm UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/cannot-view-old-threads/3021/4 "2022-06-21T13:29:28Z")
Hi @ml35 how are you today?
I’ve changed the category on your threads so you can see the replies.
As @Tasos_Katsoulas mentioned, the feature requests category in the Forums was deprecated in favour of discussing them directly in the repositories, whether through an issue template or Github Discussions.
> [@Make smartd\_log plugin also search /var/lib/smartmontools on ubuntu instead of failing when /var/log/smartd is missing](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/make-smartd-log-plugin-also-search-var-lib-smartmontools-on-ubuntu-instead-of-failing-when-var-log-smartd-is-missing/1627):
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> ubuntu smartd version 6.5+svn4324-1ubuntu0 and later (ubuntu 18.04 and newer) does not run with -A but still writes metrics into /var/lib/smartmontools csv files it would be useful to make the plugin also search for this path instead of the default /var/log/smartd, which would allow smartd support out of the box from ubuntu 18.04 man page -A PREFIX, --attributelog=PREFIX If this option is not specified, attribute information is written to files ´/var/lib/smartmontools/attrlog.MODEL-…
> [@False alarms detection](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/false-alarms-detection/1607):
>
> I get flooded with false alarms. I spend a lot of time adjusting the thresholds but I never get the perfect setup. I am thinking how to reduce the number of alarms. Using solely the threshold criteria is not enough and sometimes even misleading! For example, a 10min\_disk\_backlog of 5000ms is perfectly expected on a server that does some work it was designed for, but a 200ms on the same server when idle it would indicate a hardware disk issue. Setting the threshold at 6000ms would eliminate the…
Let me know if we can help with anything else, thank you for your contributions and have a nice day!