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Battara · 29th December 2023, 07:13 PM

Between the two, were are the most scholastic in general.

Interested Party · 30th December 2023, 01:10 PM

The thought of all the accumulated information disappearing into the void troubles me. This is a drawback of the digital media that makes me question the value of the internet in its current configuration and storage capabilities.

werecow · 30th December 2023, 06:44 PM

I wonder if there would be some way to retrieve the information through something like the wayback machine.
Although I think in this case it might be impossible since it appears they strip the query string (the bit after the "?") from the URL, which means they've only indexed the index page and not the individual boards or threads.

Which makes me feel really tempted to write a small webcrawler to periodically index vikingsword in case it one day ceases to be.

It would be really great if we had some sort of backup or mirror of all these sites somewhere, just in case.

It kind of reminds me when the IMDB movie site callously decided to get rid of their message boards, which arguably contained more information and interesting discussions than the actual site itself.

29th December 2023, 07:13 PM	#1
Battara EAAF Staff Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Louisville, KY Posts: 7,139	Between the two, were are the most scholastic in general.

30th December 2023, 01:10 PM	#2
Interested Party Member Join Date: Dec 2019 Location: Eastern Sierra Posts: 392	The thought of all the accumulated information disappearing into the void troubles me. This is a drawback of the digital media that makes me question the value of the internet in its current configuration and storage capabilities.

30th December 2023, 06:44 PM	#3
werecow Member Join Date: Sep 2021 Location: Leiden, NL Posts: 435	I wonder if there would be some way to retrieve the information through something like the wayback machine. Although I think in this case it might be impossible since it appears they strip the query string (the bit after the "?") from the URL, which means they've only indexed the index page and not the individual boards or threads. Which makes me feel really tempted to write a small webcrawler to periodically index vikingsword in case it one day ceases to be. It would be really great if we had some sort of backup or mirror of all these sites somewhere, just in case. It kind of reminds me when the IMDB movie site callously decided to get rid of their message boards, which arguably contained more information and interesting discussions than the actual site itself.