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#1 2003-03-10 12:39 am
Old Forums Archive?...
I remember when we switched forums macaddict said they would have like an archive of all the old posts. Is it still around? Just curious.
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#2 2003-03-10 12:52 am
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I heard they decided to not leave it open for a few reasons:[b]
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#4 2003-03-10 1:01 am
- rampant
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They don't have an archive because you touch yourself at night.
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#5 2003-03-10 1:11 am
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Forum Suggestions? Sounds more like Balloon Help to me.
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#6 2003-03-10 1:59 am
- TheConfuzed1
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Forum Suggestions? Sounds more like Balloon Help to me.
Unless he's suggesting that it should be archived, in which case, this is the place! 
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#8 2003-03-10 11:06 am
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It's not the topics themselves that were important but the things discussed inside the threads (that are now gone). I know just a little while ago I was looking for something I remember was posted on the old boards. (I asked the question here but nobody gave the same kinda answer as was on the old boards).
Ah well...
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#9 2003-03-10 1:18 pm
- ckm
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Re: Old Forums Archive?...
I know I'd love to have read-only access to the old forums content, if it's possible.
Like adndgamer said, it would be nice to be able to search through older discussions. Many of them contained a lot of good information and/or advice.
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#10 2003-03-10 1:37 pm
- registered_user
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Re: Old Forums Archive?...
http://www.macaddict.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=5175
That may or may not help. If it doesn't, dig through the threads here in Forum Suggestions. I'm sure there's more info.
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#11 2003-03-10 2:17 pm
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It depends on how much free time our resident phpBB guru, GUI, has. Being a student, I expect any such complicated conversion will have to wait for summer break. Don't take this as a promise of his time and effort though.
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#12 2003-03-10 9:35 pm
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Well, I might get around to it eventually.. 
Solution 1 is to convert the entire old system to phpBB, and stick that board somewhere. The nice thing about this is that there wouldn't be any need to create a search engine, since phpBB's supplied one is quite nice. The big downside is that it would still be fully dynamic, and thus be making tons of calls to the MySQL database, when in reality everything's static. Dynamic sites/scripts kick ass if they're for dynamic content, but if it's for static content, it ends ups eating more server resources than necessary.
Solution 2 is to somehow convert the entire beast to HTML files. Nice to the server, but would be an absolute pain to search.
Decisions, decisions...
Maybe when I have some time, and shouldn't be working on 10 other projects or doing homework (could very well be this summer, though I'm hoping sooner), I'll invest some time into this project.
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#13 2003-03-11 2:02 am
- TheConfuzed1
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I may be one of few, but there has been more than one occassion that I wished I could look up an old discussion. Not so much for the sake of the discussion, but for the information contained within.
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#14 2003-03-11 2:19 am
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Hey Gui,
Since UBB generates static HTML files, wouldn't it be easy to just dump them on the server somewhere, and then search using a tool like ht://Dig?
http://www.htdig.org/
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#15 2003-03-11 5:24 am
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Yeah, but the index pages and forum listings would still be powered by cgi-scripts. Just unlocking the old UBB seems to slow down the server. 
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