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RPG Maker Web Forum closing later this year; FAQ suggests the community to backup what they wish to preserve (www.timeextension.com)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/Forums@sh.itjust.works
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Crossposted from https://retrolemmy.com/post/39370642

"There are currently no plans to provide a public archive or backup of the current forum once it has been closed. We encourage users to save any posts, guides, resources, or other content they wish to keep before the forum closure. Content that you would like to continue sharing with the community may be reposted on the new forum."

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[–] 2 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Always sad to see a forum die... you know it"s just gonna be replaced with a subreddit... that anyone who criticizes Israel can't post on

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 4 months ago (3 children)

    About the Israel part, I get a sensation the only thing Reddit is favorable towards is running its own brand to the ground by any means necessary. Anything gets you a ban there from what I can observe, even non-ideological stuff. Even VPN IPs they seem to have configured the site to use as a means to spread bans, an account ban tarnishing the given IP, and another user trying to log in to that IP tarnishing his/her account, tarnishing also other IPs the user may try to use.

    About forums dying, in RPG Maker's case, though they give the thumbs up for people to backup whatever they can, which is nice, a question comes to mind, why not leave the old forum as read only, similar to what GOG does with its archived forums (e.g. the Russian and Brazilian sections)? Upkeep and maintenance of a static section of a site should be minimal.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    It still costs many, many, many $$$ for backups, etc. If you can't afford the forum, you can't afford the backups.

    It's sad to see forums die, but they require revenue to keep going/stay alive.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    GOG got rid of their forums?

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 4 months ago*

    Mosty no, only small parts. Russian because of geopolitics. The Brazilian forum because not many Brazilians used their services so around 2018, they disabled the respective, nation-specific forum. Also very old general posts were moved to an archived page, though the reason evades me.

    But otherwise, it's still all there.

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    [–] 31 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Well, they aren't closing the forum until the end of the year, so that's plenty of time for people to scrape it.

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  • [–] 34 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    The issue is making it accessible for people new to it to be able to find.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    while they could keep it up as an archive, theyre a company after all. giving a 6 month notice beforehand is a nice thing these days, i can probably scrape the site to some degree, index it, and serve it with a basic file server, and im not that skilled compared to other people in these regards

    so if the community is dedicated, i bet they will probably spin up an archival project

    i am not saying this to give the company a pass, i am saying it for people who fear it will be hard to archive

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    • [–] 25 points 4 months ago

    Maybe I'm missing something, but to be fair I don't think it's right and safe to assume that a forum will be working forever.

    I think it's good that they've announced it beforehand, instead of just making a sudden change and send everyone the middle finger (THAT would be a shit practice).

    People should make a backup of the projects now and snapshot everything. I'm sure there are scripts that enable it with relatively low effort.

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    [–] 18 points 4 months ago

    That's no good. Time to back up some of the resources I might need. Thanks for the heads-up!

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    [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    Isn't this basically what Archive of Our Own was founded for? They may focus on fan fiction, but it seems like one could start a conversation with the Organization for Transformative Works to add another wing for this sort of content.

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    [–] 7 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    First RM2K.net, now this. What a shame. I hope people can manage to preserve stuff. Sadly I'm out of storage atm.

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    • [–] 9 points 4 months ago

    Wayback Machine archive - you're welcome.

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    [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Maybe they can be imported to the Fediverse

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