The Contingency Plan/Exit Strategy

**Marie Monday** · 07-12-2022, 04:57 PM

I agree that discord is fine. It's less limited than a forum actually. Having a forum backup is nice too but given that we have the server, to me archiving this forum's history would be a higher priority

The Batlord · 07-12-2022, 05:23 PM

Too much child porn to be lost into the ether.

SGR · 07-12-2022, 05:31 PM

There are ways we could archive/dump this entire web site (it won't be easily navigable or searchable, but the data will be there) - but porting it somewhere else is an entirely different matter.

adidasss · 07-13-2022, 12:27 AM

I don't understand the comparisons with discord. As far as I understand, it's an instant communication platform, therefore the opposite of a forum. I never joined discord because I'm not interested in immediate communication. So for me, discord is definitely not a replacement for this forum.

Guybrush · 07-13-2022, 12:41 AM

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Originally Posted by adidasss

So for me, discord is definitely not a replacement for this forum.

Agreed. MB could be various things, but one of those things should be a proper forum.

Edit:

As for archive, we have it here. Copy over your journals / album reviews and other things of note. Who cares what happens to the 99 9% of the rest of our inane banter? Let it slip into oblivion and start fresh.

**Marie Monday** · 07-13-2022, 02:50 AM

Mate the banter is the important part

adidasss · 07-13-2022, 03:48 AM

Can we not steal the database somehow?

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder..._a_huge_forum/

Guybrush · 07-13-2022, 05:23 AM

We can't steal the database (well, without hacking into Yac's / the admin's account), but you can create a static copy of the website.

If I remember correctly, MB runs on vbulletin. You can ask advameg nicely for a copy of the db. Then you could set up a new vbulletin (or possibly some other compatible forum) and import the database, essentially restoring mb with all users, posts, etc. in a new location. But they're not gonna let that happen.

Trollheart · 07-13-2022, 06:14 AM

Trollheart · 07-13-2022, 11:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Guybrush

Agreed. MB could be various things, but one of those things should be a proper forum.

Edit:

As for archive, we have it here. Copy over your journals / album reviews and other things of note. Who cares what happens to the 99 9% of the rest of our inane banter? Let it slip into oblivion and start fresh.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Marie Monday

Mate the banter is the important part

To be fair here (and I may be speaking for him, but I think it's obvious) I'm pretty sure Guybrush meant that 95% of "Lounge"-style threads are old and unlikely to be revisited, so that the massive bulk of threads like those could be jettisoned. I mean, are YOU going to go back to page 43 of a 900-page thread looking for something? If those threads were to be "ported", then I would suggest, if it could be done, the last maybe ten pages of each would be sufficient to allow current conversations to be carried on. As he says, other than that, mostly it's just empty waffle nobody is going to read again.

07-13-2022, 12:27 AM	#64 (permalink)
adidasss Slavic gay sauce Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Abu Dhabi Posts: 7,993	I don't understand the comparisons with discord. As far as I understand, it's an instant communication platform, therefore the opposite of a forum. I never joined discord because I'm not interested in immediate communication. So for me, discord is definitely not a replacement for this forum. __________________ “Think of what a paradise this world would be if men were kind and wise.” - Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle. Last.fm

07-13-2022, 03:48 AM	#67 (permalink)
adidasss Slavic gay sauce Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Abu Dhabi Posts: 7,993	Can we not steal the database somehow? https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder..._a_huge_forum/ __________________ “Think of what a paradise this world would be if men were kind and wise.” - Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle. Last.fm

07-13-2022, 05:23 AM	#68 (permalink)
Guybrush Juicious Maximus III Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Scabb Island Posts: 6,525	We can't steal the database (well, without hacking into Yac's / the admin's account), but you can create a static copy of the website. If I remember correctly, MB runs on vbulletin. You can ask advameg nicely for a copy of the db. Then you could set up a new vbulletin (or possibly some other compatible forum) and import the database, essentially restoring mb with all users, posts, etc. in a new location. But they're not gonna let that happen. __________________ Something Completely Different

07-13-2022, 06:14 AM	#69 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,995	__________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018

07-12-2022, 05:31 PM	#63 (permalink)
SGR No Ice In My Bourbon Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: /dev/null Posts: 4,327	There are ways we could archive/dump this entire web site (it won't be easily navigable or searchable, but the data will be there) - but porting it somewhere else is an entirely different matter.