Archiving the forum

[zinnn]

Hi everyone,

So I'm sure some of you came across old threads with expired images. I wanted to check with the mods team if there are any plans / procedures to make sure everything is archived and accessible?

From my personal forum experience, a DIY fix to this could be to archive each thread every now and then with the Wayback Machine, so even if the imgur/flickr/photobucket etc images are deleted, you can still view them by accessing that website.

To archive the page you go to https://web.archive.org/save/

and paste a link to your wanted topic (in multiple-page threads, each page has to be submitted separately).

Once archived, you go to https://web.archive.org/ and ented the thread link in the search and it will take you to the latest archived version.

 

I can imagine storing images on your server can be quite expensive, so this is a good and quick workaround.

Edited February 9, 2022 by zinnn

[MAB]

Eurobricks doesn't store the images on their server anyway. As it is, a contributor has the right to remove any previous images they want to by deleting the images that are linked to.

Plus archiving every page of a forum manually is going to be quite a job.