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Seems like a poor excuse. You can make a read-only version of a Wiki without running wiki software. Just mirror the HTML. At the very least they could have mad
by treve 7y ago
Seems like a poor excuse. You can make a read-only version of a Wiki without running wiki software. Just mirror the HTML.
At the very least they could have made this open source
- toomuchtodo 7y agoIt would’ve been trivial to crawl the forum and dump the resulting WARC files into the Wayback machine to provide a permanent archive. This is just apathetic laziness on their part. https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/grab-site https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/grab-site
- jsjddbbwj 7y agoPretty sure the wayback machine already has a full archive
- toomuchtodo 7y agoI haven’t enumerated all of the Wayback captures for the forum yet, so I can’t speak to how recent and complete the archive of the forum is.