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Regardless of whether or not people want the site to stay open, Barbelith is in a rather precarious position at the moment. Just in case the site should happen to go down with no warning, here are some useful tools for people who want to back up material that's important to them.
Unless Tom (or some future domain ownder) should choose to change the site's robot.txt file, you should continue to be able to veiw Barbelith via The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. Just plug www.barbelith.com into the search field and away you go. (Incidentally, I recommend having a general poke around that sit if you haven't alread--there's a lot of interesting material squirrelled away there).
There are many packages available cheap or free, at least on a trial basis, which will let you download the whole board and save it to disk. Inspyder's Web2Disk is one, SurfOffline is another. I like Firefox's Scrapbook add-on, as this not only allows archiving of threads but is the only solution I've found to the problem of dl'ing private messages. If you've been here for a while and made heavy use of the PM system, you might have a few hundred to a couple thousand and wading through them all manually would be a bit of a nightmare, so this is quite handy.
Anyone got any more helpful links? |
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