Old Annex forum
Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2023 12:32 pm
I'm worried. Google's policy with its free services is to announce their abandonment, let them languish, and finally, suppress them. It is very likely that the old Annex forum will disappear, and with it, all our messages, advice and mutual aid from that time.
I have not been able to find any system that allows a backup copy that is really operational to move the content of the conversations to another environment.
With WGET, https://eternallybored.org/misc/wget/, it is possible to download html pages with the content of the messages, but they are pages that contain so much additional code that they are not practical. See this example https://myrapidq.it/oldforum/ejemplo.html: 12,500 lines of code for a few messages. And the problem of the links to the images.
I wanted to ask that Cicciocb, as the owner of the group, try to extract the content and provide it to me to create a backup copy that I would make available to all of you for the future.
Can you look at https://takeout.google.com/? I can't check it because I don't have any group, but this screen seems to indicate that the content of the messages can be downloaded in MBOX format. And please, if anyone has any thoughts on this, I'd appreciate it.
I have not been able to find any system that allows a backup copy that is really operational to move the content of the conversations to another environment.
With WGET, https://eternallybored.org/misc/wget/, it is possible to download html pages with the content of the messages, but they are pages that contain so much additional code that they are not practical. See this example https://myrapidq.it/oldforum/ejemplo.html: 12,500 lines of code for a few messages. And the problem of the links to the images.
I wanted to ask that Cicciocb, as the owner of the group, try to extract the content and provide it to me to create a backup copy that I would make available to all of you for the future.
Can you look at https://takeout.google.com/? I can't check it because I don't have any group, but this screen seems to indicate that the content of the messages can be downloaded in MBOX format. And please, if anyone has any thoughts on this, I'd appreciate it.