I haven't heard from all of the admins, so I'm proceeding on the current consensus. I will create the viewing gallery now. However, we have generally tried to move away from archives as experience has shown that they often end up resulting in lost context for posts, with little upside. If the parliament wants to end discussion on topics, they can be locked and will drop down the forum index fairly quickly given that threads are ordered chronologically by last post. You can also make use of thread pinning if the parliament wishes to highlight certain threads.