Since we had a lot of paintball knowledge on the forums here that is now gone I was wondering if they could grab the info on a large scale from the Wayback Machine archive of the site? And then I was thinking that people that had old posts and info they wanted to keep could just go and grab it from there too. I just thought that might be a way some people could retrieve some stuff they wanted.
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Llrpie knows his shit.
That said yes Wayback has a lot of stuff on there that you can go and get. I think I saw some as recent as December of last year.
Some things we will just have to be patient with. It's a learning process for us mods and it's a slow, steady and safe process for Llrpie.Originally posted by MAr "... Nish deleted it..."
Originally posted by Axel "coffee-fueled, beer-cooled."
Originally posted by Carp "Nish's two brain cells"
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Only problem is scraping a thread based forum is not easy, you easily loose context when scrapping because it does not piece together the conversation.
I happen to be working with developers on scrapping our companies customer community forum for relevant quality data (I am a Field Quality Data Analyst at the moment) and it sounds easy but in fact is far from it. I am experimenting with developing a scrapper for Wayback in context of MCB right now which I can do but getting back the information and making useful sense are not synonymous.
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Nope, it has been mentioned that Carter has backups just did not want to restore them and put everything back at risk. So there is a chance the backups could be compiled into a searchable archive.
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Originally posted by Cunha View PostAt this point are we certain that content is all 100% lost?Originally posted by MAr "... Nish deleted it..."
Originally posted by Axel "coffee-fueled, beer-cooled."
Originally posted by Carp "Nish's two brain cells"
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Originally posted by Cunha View PostI just have a hard time knowing why I can't really browse this forum effectively.
Wish there was a "recent posts" button somewhere. Best I can find is "latest activity" which doesn't really catch but maybe a few new posts.
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The "New Topics" option seems to be a good option so far. It's name is misleading. It picks up new posts in old threads as well.Originally posted by MAr "... Nish deleted it..."
Originally posted by Axel "coffee-fueled, beer-cooled."
Originally posted by Carp "Nish's two brain cells"
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