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Post by Bitmap on Mar 4, 2023 17:03:58 GMT
That's a pity.
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Post by kizolk on Mar 4, 2023 17:10:13 GMT
Oh, I now see the one that remains dates from 2021. I was fooled by its relatively high number of pages (1700+). Can't imagine how many the original one had.
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Post by Bitmap on Mar 4, 2023 17:22:04 GMT
I don't remember. Maybe 5000 or so?!
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Post by Bitmap on Mar 4, 2023 17:30:27 GMT
Could have been 5-digit numbers as well ... I really can't remember.
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Post by kizolk on Mar 4, 2023 17:32:44 GMT
I don't remember. Maybe 5000 or so?! Not bad. The forum that was the most important to me had a thread called "Randomness"; I've just checked and it had 2600 pages.
Incidentally, that forum isn't accessible anymore, and it died almost 10 years ago now. I still use the Wayback Machine from time to time to relive a bit of the experience. I even managed to get a snapshot once where I was in the online users list. But since internet bots don't crawl every page from a forum (or at least not at once), the WM snapshots mostly consist of broken links, so you have to deal with what's left or keep searching.
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Post by kizolk on Mar 4, 2023 17:37:32 GMT
(for those who don't know and think the Wayback Machine is a fancy way to talk about a trip down memory lane, it's not. It's a site where you can input a URL from any site, living or dead, and consult older states of that site. web.archive.org/) |
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Post by kizolk on Mar 4, 2023 17:42:22 GMT
Wait, only about 1300 "pages" I think. It only displayed 10 posts per page, as opposed to the 20 of LD.
The point is it had 26000 messages in the most recent snapshot I've consulted.
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Post by Bitmap on Mar 4, 2023 17:47:35 GMT
The thread actually went unnoticed for a while.
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Post by kizolk on Mar 4, 2023 17:54:16 GMT
Well, speaking of the Wayback Machine, have you tried to look for the original ET thread on it? When you click on a thread for instance, even if the current snapshot doesn't have that thread, it lets you look for any snapshot of the specific URL; one of them might work.
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Post by kizolk on Mar 4, 2023 17:58:00 GMT
Ah but then if it was in a non-public sub-forum (i.e. one not accessible to visitors), it probably isn't there...
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Post by kizolk on Mar 4, 2023 18:06:02 GMT
I wasn't prepared for that look:
Not that it's hugely different, but enough so that it's a bit disturbing.
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Post by kizolk on Mar 4, 2023 18:08:10 GMT
Also, it'd be great if ProBoards allowed us to take a look at all the media that was ever uploaded on this forum, so we could clean it up once in a while; 200 MB isn't much.
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Post by Etaoin Shrdlu on Mar 4, 2023 18:15:43 GMT
Oddly, I've been trying to see old LatinD pages on the Wayback Machine recently, but I can't see any way of avoiding having to look at dates where most of the time the only content captured is the useless front page from back then.
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Post by kizolk on Mar 4, 2023 18:17:24 GMT
Oddly, I've been trying to see old LatinD pages on the Wayback Machine recently, but I can't see any way of avoiding having to look at dates where most of the time the only content captured is the useless front page from back then. That's why I tend to browse it on a thread basis, rather than going from the front page and seeing what works or not. |
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Post by Etaoin Shrdlu on Mar 4, 2023 18:30:23 GMT
How does one do that? And ProBoards does allow us to manage attachments. I shall delete this image after people have seen it, because otherwise it will just be an attachment that will need to be managed at some point. Attachment Deleted |
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