I’m working on archiving stuff now…and making instructions in case anybody else wants to help.
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Yes, I read your detailed FUD post [worth reading everyone for a quick summary of how to use archive.org for any web site :-)]. There’s some way of poking the engine to get it to archive stuff.
I’m pretty certain it is for @admins (a group I may not mention) to, in fact, reliably archive forum.tudiabetes.org because it is a Discourse data set and it can certainly be archived. It could probably be uploaded somewhere for a site like wordpress or github, maybe.
I’m still playing with it.
It had basic data, but there’s a lot of metadata that might need to be retrieved, so I’m checking on what I can get. I have sooo much data associated with my account that the save takes a pretty long time and if it throws an error, you have to wait an hour before trying again.
Lets see if I can get Johns data.
Got it.
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Yes. I’d drop the “Save error pages” but “Save screenshot” is interesting and might bypass some attempts to hide stuff.
The “Save outlinks” option is interesting. I do a lot of “outlinks” and many times I’ve noticed that links I just assumed would keep working stopped working.
To all the people who have asked about archiving TuD itself, this is a solution; archive yourself or, perhaps better, archive those people who you respect, or disagree with or are irritated by. All of the above. That’s what makes a community.
If everybody went in and saved things like their summary, activity URLs in the machine, that might help.
For example, here is Johns summary URL in the machine being saved.
https://web.archive.org/save/https://forum.tudiabetes.org/u/john_bowler/summary
I’m seeing references to discourse, so we might be able to contact them.
