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Help preserve this board

posted 8 years ago by JustEs
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Even though this message board will be closing, there's a way to make sure that our threads will stick around. Unfortunately I'm going to be very busy in the next few weeks, but if anyone wants to do some archiving, here's how:

1. Open the page you want to save.

2. In the address bar, put web.archive.org/save/ in front of the address and that will do it!

3. You'd have to do this first for "thread" page and then open whichever topic you want to save, and also save each page.

4. Just be sure to choose "Nest" because it will then save all the posts on the page, not just the individual posts.

For example, copy and paste this into the address and you can see what it does...

http://web.archive.org/web/20170208040207/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0158552/board/thread/265572097?p=2&d=265867878

Sure hope people can do this!

We found some archives of some of our older boards and sites that have closed and it's been great fun to read. I'm sure these will be, too, in future years.

[–] JustEs 8 years ago

A friend of mine who isn't even a member but who does a lot of archiving of Charmed sites has agreed to archive this whole board, but ONLY the Charmed board. She's also only going to archive what's on here now - anything that's posted between now and when the boards close will have to be archived by someone else.

If anyone else wants to archive a different board, go for it!

She's also told me to warn you that it won't save anything that you have to log in in order to see. So it won't archive private messages, for example.

This also means that even if you are logged in and archive a page, the Wayback will save it as if you weren't logged in. So, for example, right now I show 6 pages of threads with 25 threads on each page. If I archived it, it would show 14 pages of threads with 10 threads per page.

This also means that anything you ignored will still be archived and anyone looking at the page on the Wayback will see those posts, too.

[–] MarkAnthony1990 8 years ago

Shame the board only dates back to September 2016. I'd have liked to have had the last few years preserved.

Babies kill TV shows!

[–] MarkAnthony1990 8 years ago

Shame the board only dates back to September 2016. I'd have liked to have had the last few years preserved.

Babies kill TV shows!