How to save LFGSS and what it looks like (the not so legal way)

Velocio answered and said the whole forum will just be deleted. There will be no read-only archive. Hence, on yet another thread, people asking if there was a way to export their content, Twitter style (answer: no, although feel free to play with the API to try and achieve it).

The public parts will be archived by ArchiveTeam and made available by the Wayback Machine.

https://www.lfgss.com/comments/17624460/

And having your account deleted will have almost zero effect on that. Best case, some pages will show your comments as being from deleted on their latest archive version.

+1

Besides, the Internet Archive didn't record much of LFGSS back in the pre-microcosm days and almost nothing since.

Yes I saw on the other thread and felt it should be in here. It’s a bit like the forum writ large eh? Where some people want things in the specified places and others are just farting their thoughts randomly (that’s me btw).

It’s a big part of my life and I felt safe(ish) knowing it was just Dee and Hippo in control (yeah I know, what a fucking idiot I am). Handing it over to others (no), discord (get fucked, I’m on there for zwift racing and that’s shite), doing something else (no), just point me to “burn everything down especially any indicator of anything cunty I’ve said to anyone ever thanks”.

Well, if an account deletion wouldn't do much good, it wouldn't do any harm. Although it'll be depressing for those who stay till the lights are switched off if it becomes a trend.

there's evidence on archive.org going back to 2007 - but some of it's under the old forum domain name, londonfgss.com

Mass account suicide pact on the day before it closes?

I just looked at the wayback machine and on the small sample size I checked you couldn't go to a user page then access all their posts.

I guess that's more of a pre-mixed search rather than a page of content that would be archived.

i feel that a closed forum might be the deathknell in the long term anyway. If new members can't easily come in, then it will stagnate and dwindle, I think.

As will we.

new members can't easily come in

NEW??!?! Who wants NEW members - gross

You're probably right, but I'd rather have something that will stagnate and dwindle over years than have nothing at all in two months' time.

My preferred option would be the "fuck the new law/where do we move it to" option.

That, or scorched earth. Been nice knowing yaz.

Yep, you'd probably need some form of invites to get new members who were not just totally random.

Been nice knowing yaz.

Liars Wednesday thread >>>>

"You're, sorry, your all cunts... but it was still fun"

My preferred option would be the "fuck the new law/where do we move it to" option.
That, or scorched earth. Been nice knowing yaz

Yeah, this FWIW

Imagine if the pub or nightclub owners were told they had to listen in on and vet everything patrons said to each other. Kind of mad that this is the new paradigm on the internet.