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Post by Shades of Night on Nov 24, 2015 20:49:19 GMT
Just thought I'd let you guys know that I finally figured out a more time-efficient way to get those archived posts up here. And by time-efficient, I mean instead of sifting through them all trying to find useful bits of information on bugs, games etc... I'm just going to repost everything that I have (I know it doesn't sound terribly time-efficient, but it should be quicker than reading through all those threads) The main thing that will slow this down are the posting character limits. However! In the meantime I devised an even quicker way of doing things: I'm going to copy-paste it all into several Google Docs documents. It won't be the prettiest, but it'll function until I get them all posted on here. So hopefully I'll have those google docs up soon (and by soon I mean, I don't know... a couple of weeks?). Hopefully.
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Post by Vyrulisse on Dec 9, 2015 8:11:14 GMT
That's really neat. I'd be interested in that. Sadly I found that place near the end and never really had a chance to get comfy.
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Post by Shades of Night on Dec 11, 2015 8:34:29 GMT
Yeah I came in after most of the major activity around there had died down. There's still a lot of useful relevant information (and interesting discussions) about games in there though, which is exactly why I saved what I could Anyway, slight change of plans... I had a new idea and googled things that could convert text to BBcode, and what do you know, such things exist! For free! So I've scrapped the Google Docs idea and will now just convert and post the content directly here I've got the forums for it all set up now: General is visible to everyone, Mods and Downloads visible only to members, and You-know-what is visible only to members of the Belly of the Beast. When I say visible, I mean just that, there is no posting access in those sections because... Well, they're archives I'm locking the topics as I create them too just to make that clear so people don't get confused and wonder why they can't post there. It's probably kinda buried under the new archived posts, but I've made a post detailing what I do and do not have archived here too. As you will also be able to see I've started out by transferring all the anime archives over just to test it and see how it turned out. Seems okay, so next I'll be doing the NWN section... which has over 200 topic pages XD May take a little while.
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Post by Shades of Night on Dec 21, 2015 20:23:52 GMT
Update!
I started transferring the NWN section over and have noticed that quotes don't tend to transfer well. As in the text comes across but not the quotation boxes. I'll have to go back and add those all manually later. So if you read through the archives keep that in mind. Obviously all images are broken so so I'll be uploading and adding them later too. And there are a few bits of coding sticking out, will fix that later as well...
The biggest thing is that I noticed: it's taking the email links out of the buttons that they were in on the original board pages, and is posting them in plain text. For all of google to potentially see. So I'm going through now and replacing all those emails with 'email removed' Edit: Done, no more emails should be showing in the archives.
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