Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-28712089-20190128214224/@comment-168424-20190128231707

Andrewds1021 wrote:

By the way, I have always been unclear on what it actually means to be "archived".

Well, in the case of User talk pages when you switch to Message Wall, your talk page gets moved and made read-only. After the archive process, a "See archived talk page" link appears at the bottom of your wall.

There is a similar process going back to talk pages, but I haven't actually done it or seen it in effect, so I'm not sure how it works.