One thing I learned by moving this thread into the members area for the last 4 months: it was never de-indexed from google.
The first few posts on page one were still indexed the whole time, but for four months this thread was a dead link in the SERPs. As soon as the thread was back on the public side, the dead SERP links worked again. It was never crawled in such a way that the dead content were removed from google's results.
Assumption: the new content on this thread, starting 5/12/24, would not have been indexed in the last 4 months -- because the first few posts were not de-indexed as non-active / dead links.
But about this specific issue, not having a page de-indexed for being a dead link... I realize it's complicated. The assumption about the new content now being indexed, is just an assumption. The future unfolds slowly (I thought that phrase up, then googled it. Sure enough other's have used it. #TheProblemWithProvingOriginality).
"How long does it take for old deleted web pages to go away?"
https://support.google.com/websearch...-go-away?hl=en
"Deleted Pages Still Appearing in Search Results"
https://support.google.com/webmaster...-results?hl=en
"This thread was indexed by google within approx 1 month"
https://community.loghomebuilders.or...new-versus-old
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