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A way to get a copy of the forums? by prashker on 07-29-2012 at 09:21 PM
Personally I feel like this place is going to disappear eventually.
Having said that I spent quite a large portion of time here growing up, given by my post count.
I would like to remember those posts so I can look back on the people who I've helped, the people who have helped me and the friends I've made.
Is there a way an admin can setup a way to export threads I've posted in. Or atleast provide some SQL dump of the forum threads?
Thanks,
Sam
RE: A way to get a copy of the forums? by whiz on 07-29-2012 at 09:37 PM
Would they not have pruned a lot of the old threads?
RE: A way to get a copy of the forums? by prashker on 07-29-2012 at 10:23 PM
quote:
Originally posted by whiz
Would they not have pruned a lot of the old threads?
I believe post count decreases with pruned threads. So in my case I have 5089 posts that are not pruned.
RE: A way to get a copy of the forums? by Menthix on 07-30-2012 at 12:02 PM
quote:The main goal is to keep the forum around as long as possible, so everyone can access it. This might eventually in a different place. But as long as the original thread content is there and the old URLs redirect I consider that a better option than a few people with a .SQL/.CSV file.
Originally posted by SonicSam
Personally I feel like this place is going to disappear eventually.
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Is there a way an admin can setup a way to export threads I've posted in. Or atleast provide some SQL dump of the forum threads?
You are right though, nothing on the internet truly lives forever. I like the kind of data liberation tools Google, Twitter and alike offer. But TBH currently I have a massive todo list (unrelated to msghelp/msgplus). I don't see me working on a export function for a "what if" scenario right now. I do have full backups. Should something unexpected happen there are plenty ways to reach me outside of msghelp ( http://menthix.net/contact/ | https://twitter.com/Menthix | https://www.facebook.com/Menthix ). Worst case scenario I can provide a .sql then. Obviously would have to filter out private things as email/IP/PM and such and make sure private forums stay private.
No prunning has been done in a long time btw, except for T&T... and even there it hasn't been done for a long time since not much is posted anyway.
RE: A way to get a copy of the forums? by MeEtc on 07-30-2012 at 09:43 PM
What about the hardware, who's maintaining/paying for that nowadays that C2 is out of the picture?
Based on a traceroute, looks like its co-located in Fremont CA by Hurricane Electric?
RE: A way to get a copy of the forums? by prashker on 07-31-2012 at 09:18 PM
MenthiX: Fair enough, as long as at some point I'll be able to contact someone regarding it. There's two other major forums that have disappeared and I never got my posts from there. So I'd like to be able to look back on it years from now.
RE: A way to get a copy of the forums? by Menthix on 07-31-2012 at 10:03 PM
quote:Yuna is. The backups are offsite though.
Originally posted by MeEtc
What about the hardware, who's maintaining/paying for that nowadays