I talked to Breakabone on AIM like a month ago, and we were looking over old posts... its cool to check out how much things have changed over time.
This wouldn't be the first time history was erased, but this is easily the longest period we've ever went with without any type of huge thread deletions.
I'm with Jason though... do what you gotta do, as long as it keeps the site operating. Its the people that make the place special, the site itself doesn't even have to be super complecated. (heck we lived through not even having a main site at all for a while >.>)