I’ll keep an eye out for future developments and perhaps return to WPforo when it’s more suited to our needs. 

kind regards 

Scott 

I'm really sorry but this is not planned in next 1-2 upcoming versions. We're getting dozens of new feature requests every day. If you count the total number within last 6 months or even within more time period (since wpForo exists, about three years) you'll see the number of items in our to-do list. Also, you can check wpForo changelog and see how many features we've added during the last 6 months. https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpforo/#developers

Some features, like this, have not requested by many users. We add new features in plugin updates  based on the number of asking users. At the moment "Topic and Post Archiving" feature is the 75th in our to-do list. And this is not an easy and quick feature that we could add it as an exception.

If you need this feature urgently you can contact to our gVectors Custom Development team via salesgvectors.com email address. They'll assess the work and let you know how much it can cost for you as a custom addon.

That reply is over 6 months ago and I'm still not finding any solutions or added features in your forum that addresses this issue at present. 

Is this truly something you are intending to include with a future release or update, or is this a common reply to requests from end users?

My forum has gotten huge over the past several years. It's running slow. The database for the forum is close to 1.5gb. How can I archive older posts that are weighing down the system? That's a pretty standard feature in most forums, yet I can't find any info on how to do it with WPForo. 

I also have this need and am being asked by my users how this can be done.

I'm really sorry but there is no such feature in wpForo. We'll add it in our to-do list for future releases.