Post by Lucy on Jul 6, 2020 20:45:55 GMT
As some of you noticed, the 44-page-long clock man search thread has gone missing recently. The irony of this is not lost on us.
One of the staff members accidentally deleted the thread while trying to delete a spam message within it. Unfortunately, ProBoards does not have the functionality to restore threads, and when we asked their support team they told us there was nothing they can do.
HOWEVER, I've compiled archives of all 44 pages through Bing and Google's caches (honestly mostly Bing, they don't update their cache as much so they had far more of the pages still saved for the brief time being).
Here is an offline archive in a .zip file: archive.org/details/clockman_202007 (unzip everything into the same folder, and then use the .html files to open each page)
Additionally, as another backup, every page is now saved on archive.is:
1: archive.is/RaCvX
2: archive.is/V5cu4
3: archive.is/YUssN
4: archive.is/uWeJW
5: archive.is/bf9ko
6: archive.is/xsLDj
7: archive.is/uLZtd
8: archive.is/TVg96
9: archive.is/T6AOd
10: archive.is/OxIPU
11: archive.is/8JCq1
12: archive.is/63JOw
13: archive.is/M4VkC
14: archive.is/TkToM
15: archive.is/SizVW
16: archive.is/c9sBX
17: archive.is/7Dqt8
18: archive.is/viQil
19: archive.is/b3XKM
20: archive.is/1LPrt
21: archive.is/mYCAb
22: archive.is/CgYPK
23: archive.is/UJ9XS
24: archive.is/J0OMA
25: archive.is/v3QB4
26: archive.is/PSpPf
27: archive.is/a2m7t
28: archive.is/OCFHl
29: archive.is/ZHzNt
30: archive.is/lZP3x
31: archive.is/sZJ32
32: archive.is/kf4WZ
33: archive.is/Uj1th
34: archive.is/kHhOY
35: archive.is/Apq1h
36: archive.is/cutw3
37: archive.is/0mUqe
38: archive.is/kVpzK
39: archive.is/zq1Mj
40: archive.is/i3wdq
41: archive.is/yJcQV
42: archive.is/8Tv9T
43: archive.is/NqPNj
44: archive.is/DMgDF
It's not ideal, I know, but I hope this makes it up to all of you. This mistake will never happen again.
If you're wondering why I used archive.is instead of archive.org for the online backups, a couple reasons:
1. In my experiences it's faster. Not knocking IA, given they're hosting over 40 petabytes of data they have every reason to run a little slow, but this was time-sensitive before these caches expired so any time I could save was worth it.
2. Back when I tried to archive a bunch of IMDb message board threads, I did them on the wayback machine, and then due to robots.txt (i presume) they all broke right after the forums went down. Archive.is isn't at the mercy of robots.txt, so it seemed safer in the theoretical event that ProBoards ever decides to disallow archives.
One of the staff members accidentally deleted the thread while trying to delete a spam message within it. Unfortunately, ProBoards does not have the functionality to restore threads, and when we asked their support team they told us there was nothing they can do.
HOWEVER, I've compiled archives of all 44 pages through Bing and Google's caches (honestly mostly Bing, they don't update their cache as much so they had far more of the pages still saved for the brief time being).
Here is an offline archive in a .zip file: archive.org/details/clockman_202007 (unzip everything into the same folder, and then use the .html files to open each page)
Additionally, as another backup, every page is now saved on archive.is:
1: archive.is/RaCvX
2: archive.is/V5cu4
3: archive.is/YUssN
4: archive.is/uWeJW
5: archive.is/bf9ko
6: archive.is/xsLDj
7: archive.is/uLZtd
8: archive.is/TVg96
9: archive.is/T6AOd
10: archive.is/OxIPU
11: archive.is/8JCq1
12: archive.is/63JOw
13: archive.is/M4VkC
14: archive.is/TkToM
15: archive.is/SizVW
16: archive.is/c9sBX
17: archive.is/7Dqt8
18: archive.is/viQil
19: archive.is/b3XKM
20: archive.is/1LPrt
21: archive.is/mYCAb
22: archive.is/CgYPK
23: archive.is/UJ9XS
24: archive.is/J0OMA
25: archive.is/v3QB4
26: archive.is/PSpPf
27: archive.is/a2m7t
28: archive.is/OCFHl
29: archive.is/ZHzNt
30: archive.is/lZP3x
31: archive.is/sZJ32
32: archive.is/kf4WZ
33: archive.is/Uj1th
34: archive.is/kHhOY
35: archive.is/Apq1h
36: archive.is/cutw3
37: archive.is/0mUqe
38: archive.is/kVpzK
39: archive.is/zq1Mj
40: archive.is/i3wdq
41: archive.is/yJcQV
42: archive.is/8Tv9T
43: archive.is/NqPNj
44: archive.is/DMgDF
It's not ideal, I know, but I hope this makes it up to all of you. This mistake will never happen again.
If you're wondering why I used archive.is instead of archive.org for the online backups, a couple reasons:
1. In my experiences it's faster. Not knocking IA, given they're hosting over 40 petabytes of data they have every reason to run a little slow, but this was time-sensitive before these caches expired so any time I could save was worth it.
2. Back when I tried to archive a bunch of IMDb message board threads, I did them on the wayback machine, and then due to robots.txt (i presume) they all broke right after the forums went down. Archive.is isn't at the mercy of robots.txt, so it seemed safer in the theoretical event that ProBoards ever decides to disallow archives.