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[TolyK]

I definitely agree it should be done by hand as well, precisely because there can be missed links. However, I'm making sure we definitely get at least the links that appear in the threads themselves. I've saved what URL each thread came HTML page came from.

I found 716 quicktopic pages and saved them locally. They're missing styling elements, logos and such.

I'm also submitting them all to archive.org (using a modified version of the script, because the original script completely died when something failed).
If you can upload a .txt of all URLs you've worked through (not sure if you've all been keeping track) I can re-run the script several times, hours apart, to try to snapshot all of them.

[heydude6]

I'm confused? Any Url that I have saved in my files has already been manually archived by myself. Why would you need it?


Anyway, while I'm here, here are some more games that are likely to be lost forever:

Scum chat of Vengeful Mafia 9: DAY 2: SCUM stumbles (4/5)

Possible dead chat (may not have one) of Confusion Mafia | Day 3: Good luck.


These are not high priority btw. The highest Priority are the missing quicktopics in Webadict's games that I compiled in my last report. Since his games were popular and beloved by many, I want to save them. I'm worried that Web might not be able to help this time, but some of the other players might know something.

Also, I skipped ahead and archived all three of Vector's games. They are quite the gems and I want to make sure they aren't lost. I'm not sure if they still plan on helping us today.

EDIT: Well Hot Damn Web! If this was Reddit I'd give you a gold. I'll get to saving those now.

[webadict]

I know Webadict just mentioned his technical issues, but unfortunately there are many missing chats that only he has access to that I'd like to get ahold of. Even if Webadict could only provide a few, I'd be incredibly grateful for that. Due to the amount of games he's involved in, it would leave quite a big hole if we let the quicktopics disappear.

Spoiler: The Webadict request list (click to show/hide)

Org's Aztec Mafia has no posted chats. Webadict was Cortez(mafia godfather) so he would have access to the scumchat

Webadict's BYOR 3 is missing quicktopics including the scumchat.

Webadict's Vote Mafia: Special Edition is missing a scumchat.

Webadict's Vote Mafia 6 is missing a scumchat.

I'm curious about whether Third Party 2 has a cult chat, since the cult here did manage to recruit this time

The Gm of Vengeful Mafia 4 forgot to post the scumchat after the game ended. Webadict was one of the scum, so I would appreciate his help in the matter.

Webadict's Beginner's Mafia XXI does not have a scumchat.

Webadict's BYOR 6.3 had a mason group form mid-game, but no mason chat was posted.

The mafia-brother had a quicktopic with the mafia in Webadict's Third Party Mafia 3. Since there was a serial killer ally this game, I wonder if they also shared a quicktopic.

Webadict's Simple BYOR is missing quicktopics including a scumchat.

Since I probably won't be able to make a big request like this at the end of Friday, I'll need to think of a way to ask for missing quicktopic links in a timely matter. I can probably just post requests in the thread/PM as they come up, but I think it is necessary to be a bit proactive with Webadict's games. So I skimmed through the rest of them to see if I found any issues

Spoiler: Proactive Webadict (click to show/hide)

KILL WEBADICT NOW: WEBADICT EDITION! In previous games, the incarnation of the Webadict would have their own quicktopic. Also, I noticed there was a cult here. No quicktopics were posted, but were there any made?
Vote Mafia 8 is eternally locked. Is it okay if the topics are posted?

There were only two thankfully.

Anyway, this was a lot to put onto one person and I feel incredibly bad about doing it, but it needed to be said for the sake of our archival efforts. Every bit helps


Here is some stuff that is probably lost forever.

The Dead chat of Hangman - Game Over - Is it hanged or hung? Mafia win! assuming it has one

Anything to with Bay 12 Mafia - Night Three - Low Resolution - 2 replacements needed. Gm is absent and topic is locked. No lead on who could be scum. It wasn't a notable game, but it was a big one. A shame

Don't know what to do about BYOR: Choices.

I have a little bit of hope for this one, BYOT mafia: Night 2 - 13/19 alive - Delicious A lot of the players here are still around. One might be former scum and could provide a scum topic

A notable game as well unfortunately Not-So-Beginner Mafia: Panda Edition [Day 2, 7/9]

On a final note, I had a lot of fun with this and I hope everyone else did, too. Lastly, this link to the Google Doc I used for this game has all the PMs and day flavor unless I cocked up making it accessible:

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Ap5KzVfSPGdSdGVsRXZSMklEZnQ1R3hqU3k4ZFBZM2c&hl=en&authkey=CLSZzvcM

Yes you did Panda. It may have been accessible in the past, but it isn't anymore.

Better to let your game die than let the thread be locked forever.

Yes indeed Toaster. Yes indeed.


Good night everyone. See you in the morning.

Aztec Mafia
Spaniard Chat: https://www.quicktopic.com/43/H/qP2FirKULCpk

BYOR 3
Mafiachat: http://www.quicktopic.com/43/H/x5hreYLv9tecJ

Vote Mafia: Special Edition
Mafiachat: http://www.quicktopic.com/44/H/DpVbtr84Nq5n

Vote Mafia 6
Mafiachat: http://www.quicktopic.com/44/H/NKzuRz32cUWy

Third Party 2 did not have any communication outside of the thread, I believe, as no cultchat exists that I found.

Vengeful Mafia 4
Mafiachat: https://www.quicktopic.com/45/H/yVhZ5VY8HpB

Beginner's Mafia XXI
Mafiachat: http://www.quicktopic.com/45/H/Spqy5x6DzSdn

BYOR 6.3
Masonchat: http://www.quicktopic.com/45/H/iZmPZePZ3PHP
Deadchat: http://www.quicktopic.com/45/H/aEvDTjaAb57h

TP3 did NOT have a Serial Killer and SK-Ally Quicktopic, as far as my research has shown.

SBYOR
Mafiachat: http://www.quicktopic.com/46/H/peiiKURvfQY9

KWN: Webadict Edition
Webchat: https://www.quicktopic.com/47/H/63qzSDyRdqua
Deadchat: http://www.quicktopic.com/47/H/KTTWA499pE2
There was no Cultchat.

Vote Mafia 8
Mafiachat: http://www.quicktopic.com/47/H/YsycsqTS4iMC

LOST FOREVER BUT SAVED BY AWESOMENESS
BYOR:Choices
Mafiachat: http://www.quicktopic.com/44/H/FMseS6C8u7p9s

[TolyK]

I've archived all TolyK games and the URLs that Webadict just posted (both directly and through archive.org).

[heydude6]

Hey Tolyk, I have to overcome my natural shyness and ask another dumb question. Last time you archived something and posted the results for us to see, you gave us:

I get a 403 forbidden for all QuickTopic URLs. Maybe because I'm in Eastern Europe?

I can't even access my own created QuickTopic chats. :/


KYOSN on WayBack:

Dead Chat

Mafia Chat

Cult Chat

Shakerag Chat

Observer Chat

Mason Chat

Which wasn't very useful since you'd only be able to see the front page. You didn't do it our way because of this bug:

The "print" trick shows this:

Code: [Select]

Hrm.

The Wayback Machine has not archived that URL.


At the time, we didn't know that quicktopic will sometimes have a lag between archiving a post and making it viewable so we couldn't explain what went wrong. Now we know the cause of your issue. The "print trick"  works, it's just that sometimes you have to wait a bit, but that time is thankfully able to be spent archiving other threads.

Have you been archiving your pages using the print trick since then? Sorry for the dumb question, I just wanted to make sure we were on the same page before leaving the stuff webadict posted in your hands.

[TolyK]

Yes, I'm using the print trick, and I checked the outputs to be sure it was successful. It works when I use a VPN to a US IP address, but not from where I'm here in Europe without the VPN.

Also, not a dumb question, it's a legit concern.

[Leafsnail]

Bay 12 Mafia quickchats:
https://www.quicktopic.com/43/H/sKNHrJmuKf7
https://www.quicktopic.com/43/H/yEjqrpmaNc2G

Hangman Mafia chat:
https://www.quicktopic.com/44/H/NgZJA4dw9Kb
e: I don't think this had a deadchat looking at my topics and PMs.

[heydude6]

Holy shit Leafsnail! I wasn't expecting you to appear again out of the blue! Would you be interested in joining our cause?

I don't know if you have the time to directly archive a page, but I made an earlier report that listed some other "Lost forever games"

*snip*

It's very long, I wouldn't bother reading it, I just wonder if you can help with any of the following:

Dead chat of Weirdo mafia 2
Dead chat of Vector's Bastard Mafia Game if it exists


Anyway, I just wanted to point out that the quick topics you posted are for the original Bay12 mafia that's in the notable games thread. That one was archived succesfully. The one you see in the report is actually the ill-fated sequel. It may seem weird to try to recover the chats of dead games, but we're trying to save as much as we can.

[Vector]

I don't have the Vector's Bastard Mafia Game deadchat. I have these two chats:

https://www.quicktopic.com/43/H/7SUPQFjxGC2s
https://www.quicktopic.com/43/H/rYtxU5qTFCaPw

IIRC Neruz was b& a while back so we can't ask him directly.

[Vector]

Dead chat of Weirdo mafia 2

Try PMing JoshFH directly, he's active on the forum...

[heydude6]

I did. He didn't reply.

[Vector]

Dang, too bad.

I don't really have the tech knowhow to save and host chats tbh and I am Tired. Where are we at this point with the project? Do we have the whole Notable Games Archive?

[heydude6]

Here is my updated list of the notable game archive checklist

This is the Notable Games Archive, where we keep all of Bay12's best rounds of Mafia.  The rounds that, due to some high-quality aspect, deserve to be remembered.  Since the forum is pretty old, there's a lot of great games here.  If you're a newbie, you should probably start with the Vanilla games, though everything else is awesome, too.

If you've just finished playing, reading, or running a particularly excellent game, come to this thread and nominate it!  This is the place to squawk about it for future generations of mafia players.

Spoiler: Vanilla and Beginner's Games (click to show/hide)

Beginner's Mafia I
The very first Beginner's Mafia round ever run.  The scumteam, inexperienced as it was, managed to pull the wool over the town's eyes after nearly getting caught the first day.  Notable both for terrible scum play and excellent scum play, as well as a number of attempted gambits.  Shows the downside to townie gambles, as well as being a good guide on trapping beginners and structured, end-game oriented scum play.

Beginner's Mafia III
This was the game that moved ICs from "player" status to "observer/tutor" status.  Both ICs rolled up scum and proceeded to thrash the town in a manly fashion--other than the fact that one of them died D2 after a carefully launched townie assault.  The other one was Webadict.  Despite the thrashing, this was a surprisingly tense game.  A last-minute townie replacement resulted in a near-loss for the scum team.  Demonstrates insightful playing at its best, on both sides.

Beginner's Mafia IV
Near-flawless scum game, along with a doctor gambit near the end that played out surprisingly well.  This is the game to look at if you want to see how to fake town.

Beginner's Mafia IX
Mostly up for its obscenely good flavor.  The town played a strong game in this one, as did the scum, despite numerous replacements.  Nothing especially new, but it's a truly great read.

Beginner's Mafia XXXIII
Both IC's were scum.  Need I say more?

Beginner's Mafia XXXV
Don't let the scum lurk to victory.  Do enjoy the magnificent flavor.

Not-So Beginner's Mafia
The scum convinced a townie to lynch confirmed town.  Good and bad play abound here from both sides.  If you didn't know what buddying was when you started reading, you'll certainly know by the end.

Not-So-Beginner Mafia: Panda Edition (The spread sheet with scum topic is inaccesible. We speculated in this thread that maybe you might be able to reach it)
This is basically the fastest town victory the board has ever seen.  Ever.  It was entirely behavior-based, too.  Of course, the scum were relatively inexperienced, but this is still an absurdly high-powered game.
Oh, and the flavor was also awesome--pity we couldn't see more of it.

Near-Mountainous Mafia
Good town play--unfortunately against some rather poor scum, but the hunting was relentless, and the scum gave a strong fight.

Spoiler: Classic setups (click to show/hide)

Dwarf Fortress Mafia 3
One of the more audacious scum claims ever seen, and an excellent use of night game logic.  The day game is somewhat murky, but improves throughout.  Also historical as one of the first games of mafia played on the board. (This predates quicktopics actually so there's nothing to archive)

Vote Mafia 1
The very first round of Vote Mafia, introduced by Webadict.  This game marks not only the beginning of a popular series, but also the beginning of B12's insight-based day game.  The end result is a particularly close game, with high emotional tension towards the finish.

Wizard Duel 3
In a gametype characterized by the "there can only be one" mentality, this was one of the best examples of the scum working against themselves at the same time as they destroyed the town.  It's also one of the more curious instances of town WIFOM usage where, although it didn't work in the end, PrinnyBaal laid a most intriguing and intricate net.

Paranormal 13
One of the best games of Paranormal ever played.  The scum lost an early-game advantage due to some clever work by a Paranoid War Veteran, and were soon reduced to one player.  That player then successfully controlled the lynches for the rest of the game to his advantage.  Excellent work from both town and scum.

Paranormal 16
A particularly strong game from scum, town, and third parties.  Though a lack of trust destroyed much of the headway made by the exterminator, the game was still quite close and ended with a clever scum victory.

Paranormal 20
In the immortal words of Shakerag: "Hardcore Dopp hosing.  Xeno shenanigans.  Hivemind shenanigans."  What else could a body want?

Vengeful Mafia 11
This game showcases both the benefits and the dangers of taking one's time.  In a hammer-only setup, caution and a wish to take things slowly led to extreme fatigue on both teams' parts and no change in the D1 mislynch, but gave the opportunity for thought that led to a last-minute town victory.

King of the Mafia (King of mafia does not use QTs as far as I'm aware)
King of the Mafia Continued
King of the Mafia 3
King of the Mafia 4
King of the Mafia 5
The King of the Mafia series is a long-running proving ground for the forum's top members, and for those who want to test themselves.  It's a concentrated series of mind games and psychological tactics, a form of Mafia which doesn't end until someone wins.  So far Webadict, Leafsnail, ToonyMan, Toaster, and Teneb have taken the crown.

Wild West Mafia
A forum veteran executes a nigh spotless scum game while detailing his thought process in scum chat. The scum player's victory was so thorough and well-documented that the game earned a reputation as an excellent game to learn scum from.

Spoiler: Bring Your Own Role (click to show/hide)

Bring Your Own Role Mafia 1
The very first BYOR run on the boards.  Most of the roles were fairly weak at this point, but the end result was still a complex and enjoyable game.  The end result pitted a serial killer against the remaining scum and a weak townie.  Also notable for the serial killer's fake roleclaim, which required a heavy post restriction throughout the entire game--and which no one saw through.

uPick Mafia: Panda Edition
Notable chiefly for the use of hammers, 19 players, and a scumteam that bussed two of its members, had 3/4 of itself replaced, and spent most of its scumchat arguing with itself, but still made it to victory.  It is also extremely long, so consider yourself warned.

iPick Mafia
If uPick is where the players pick the rolenames, iPick is something of an opposite.  The rolenames were chosen at random from Wikipedia, and then distributed to the players.  Besides flavor, which somehow managed to incorporate the scenario perfectly, town played a very strong game during both night and day.  The jester was also exemplary.

Bring Your Own Role Mafia 4
One of the few cult victories this board has ever seen--by ponies.  A fairly skilled scum game was cut short by a serial killer and massive stupidity on the team's part, which resulted in the rest of the town being taken over by the Pony Cult.  Particularly notable for the skillful fakeclaiming in a difficult setting, which ushered in the cult victory.

BYOR 8
Insanity, poetry, survivor masons.

Bring Someone Else's Role
In this form, everyone submits a role... for someone else to play as.  This resulted, of course, in the inevitable: Bookthras roleplaying the Wall of Flesh.  See also: amazing flavor.

BYOR 0
The 16th Webadict BYOR, BYOR 15 0 took his trademark high-power chaos to a new level.  Two players merged to become one two-headed super-SK, then lost their shared role to a thieving cultist.  Both the SK and the cultist were brought into a secretive mason chat to control the game and collaborate against the mafia.  The last mafioso had two kills per cycle, convincing the anti-mafia conspirators that the remaining independent townie was an SK.  Murder ensued.

Spoiler: Crazy closed setups (click to show/hide)

Time Travel Mafia
A game with a unique time-traveling mechanic.  Though both town and scum play was fairly average, the game makes the list due to its sheer ingenuity.(Nothing to Archive actually)

Liberal Crime Squad Mafia
An interesting mafia game, in that the rules constantly changed based on the scum's night actions and the town's votes during the day.  Not only that, but the third party dynamics were interesting as well.

Color Mafia
A game where each player was assigned a color.  Not only was the mild bastard modding solved, but the game ended with two masons against the remaining scum, after a risky survivor gambit where the masons pretended to be scum.  A very strong game all around, save the jester gambit at the beginning.  Don't copy that.(Predates quicktopic)

Toon Mafia IV
Has a Tom Cruise cult.  You should read it for this reason alone.
(Predates quicktopic)
Toon Mafia V
Has an embedded dethy setup and the board's first successful staged fight.  One role gains power from being insulted.  Another one grows stronger by behaving angrily, which is mirrored by a second role which must act happy.  Successful town victory over a very strong scumteam.

Bay12 Mafia
This is the first run of Bay12 Mafia, which contains roles based on players here at the subforum.  Other than brilliant flavor written by Leafsnail, the game represents the first scum victory over a confirmed townie directing the town.

MSPA Mafia
Everyone was scum and won.  This is what happens when you hand out horribly broken survivor roles.  Also notable were the death cult, survivors, multiple scumteams, and multiplicity of cults... all in a game with 11 players.  Perhaps better left unmentioned was the sudden change of one player's role to "a fish."

Rysith's Semi-Bastard Mod Mafia
The scumteam was able to make fake mod posts, and the first two or three days were spent with the town trying to figure out how to vote.  In the end, the remaining scum player (and Pal Erdos) won when the scum "gave up" and asked to be lynched.  Seriously, you have to read this one to believe it.

Cybrid Mafia: Infiltrate//Seek//Eliminate
Two towns versus a cult.  Somehow, despite the entire cult being weeded out (due to an internal traitor), they still managed to win.  This may have been slightly cheap, but at least it was interesting.

Cybrid Mafia 5
An interestingly constructed scumteam, comprising an allied SK and Survivor combo, complete with a win from behind and excellent endgame play from all factions.

Choose-Your-Own-Masquerade
Almost a regular semi-open mafia game, but with the following points: there were no nights, players start with a number of points they can by role powers with, and there were mechanisms for gaining new points, and buying & selling powers throughout the game, and each player had a secret mask colour. Powers could only target masks and there were ways to swap masks in play. Scum put all their eggs in one basket, with one scum taking a kill and two others supporting him. The killer immediately had their kill stolen by a changeling randomly picking targets, and 4maskwolf viciously bussed his two scum mates getting everyone to believe he was town, right up until a townie killed him on a hunch.

Choose-Your-Own-Mafias
Like Choose-Your-Own-Masquerade, but with two mafia teams, two third parties, and twice as many points per player at the start of the game.  The system was brilliantly gamed.  In the words of Flabort and Deathsword:
"A game so thoroughly mechanically broken by its players that it merits mention; where between one scum team resurrecting eachother incessantly and the other one abusing hyperinflation to steal every single vote in the game and quickhammer 8 times consecutively.  Self-targeting changelings.  Town players were thoroughly confused by random powers showing up in their possessions and vanishing, and many streaks (good and bad) were broken."

Election
An election game in which two town players had to successfully vote for the town candidate, while a scum voter had to push a vote for the scum candidate. The twist being, the scum voter didn't know who their candidate was, leading to a series of dramatic turns as various players came to realise that they had each been championing the wrong candidate.

Spoiler: Bastard Mods (click to show/hide)

Kill Webadict Now
Exactly what it sounds like.  The goal of the game was to kill Webadict.  Shockingly, Webadict (the player) managed to survive through most of the first day, after which he was summarily lynched.  This game also features use of the "cells" tactic, originally pioneered in one of the early Paranormal games.  Sadly, the game ended due to a fluke, but what existed was fun.

Kill Webadict Now: Dakarian Edition
Besides being a spinoff of the already popular Kill Webadict Now, this game introduced a Roll-to-Dodge subgame in the flavortext.  Other than some unanticipated challenges for The Webadict, there was very little result--and again, the game ended on a fluke, albeit a more exciting one.  Also unusual were the "special guests," who were non-player characters with their own agenda and introduced the concept to the subforum.

Ill-Met By Moonlight
The mechanics of this game are still left undisclosed.  All that is known at this point is that the town played valiantly, the scum lost, and the flavor was absolutely brilliant.

Neruz's Bastard Mod Game
They lynched a player and got a 5-headed hivemind back.  They recruited the mod to a cult.  They lynched the mod.  They received another mod.  The cult members died.  Then the cult won.

No, I don't quite understand it either, but it was pretty hilarious when it happened.

Bellsounder
One of the few bastard mods that actually worked as planned.  The town got a good idea of what was going on, the scum outwitted them, and fun was had by all.  The simplistic flavor was also quite welcome.  This is a good example of how bastard mods should be played and created.

Gryph's Quick Bastard
The only game ever run here using the standard tactic of needing to lynch the mod.  The town didn't manage to figure this out, despite the copious hints.  On the other hand, this is another example of a particularly well-designed bastard puzzle.  For increased novelty, one of the players was the mod's puppet account, and he recruited spectators to help him play with the town.

Witches' Coven
Beautiful flavor.  Unwinnable wincons.  Complicated setups.  Crazy gambits.  Just go read it, will you?

Politibastard
Another game in the vein of Liberal Crime Squad mafia, but bastardized even further for everyone's amusement.

Mein Kampf: A Tale of Vainglourious Basterds
Nominated and placed here for Bay12's first game enriched by not only Quentin Tarantino, but also actual historical research.  Beyond that, the setup truly merited the Bastard Mod title, leading to a great many Shenanigans... no more can be said here without ruining the surprise, of course, but needless to say, the game is one worth reading.

Kill Your Own Shakerag Now

It actually was a bastard mod, but a bastard mod would advertise it as a semi-bastard just to be a bastard.

So incomprehensible and convoluted that it took about eight months for the main mod to figure out who won.  Theoretically a semi-bastard (only theoretically), it revolved the idea of the player Shakerag, sort of.  At one pivotal point, a non-player velociraptor ate a player and became a Shakerag.  Nobody quite understands KYOSN, but it was hilarious and entertaining, particularly as the bastard mechanics piled up higher and higher.

Flabort's High-Powered Bring Your Own Role 2
A full-bastard BYOR variant in which each player submits 2-8 roles, which are largely distributed randomly.  The result: 13 players.  80 roles.  Infinite actions.  1 loser.  16 winners.  10 days.

Mafia Marathon
23 four-five player setups, each deeply different and each more bastardy than the last, nestled in a point-based metagame.  Almost a whole year of Mafia, Mafia Marathon deserves archival not just for the perseverance of the players and the quality of the play, but for Tomasque's ingenuity in setup creation as well.

Bastard Paranormal 2
Interesting mechanics.

We've got most of them.

The tech know-how for archival is actually pretty simple. Let me give you an explanation in a double post.

[ToonyMan]

I think I got the Bay 12 Mafia sequel quicktopics from Leafsnail:

Mafia chat
https://www.quicktopic.com/44/H/kq5T24LuqAH
Dead chat
https://www.quicktopic.com/44/H/SsKbVu5BUi3q
Spoil spec
https://www.quicktopic.com/44/H/sUAtuVPG9jQ

[heydude6]

How to archive a thread

Step 1: Find the quicktopics.

Depending on the mod, this can be either very easy or somewhat annoying. Ideally the GM will post it all in a single post-game post, otherwise you might have to rely on the posts of other players to make up for the Mod's negligence. Making sure you find everything is more of an art than a science, but a few quick tips:

-Read the role list to figure out which factions are in play. Look for scum and dead chats, and cults and masons if applicable.
-Be wary of Bastard and role madness games because the tells for something like the existence of a mason group can be surprisingly subtle.
-Not every game has a dead chat

If you believe a certain chat exists, but a link is nowhere to be found, don't torture yourself. Write down the issue somewhere and crowdsource the problem to us

Step 2: Expand the quicktopic so that the all of the information is on a single page.
(You can skip this step if the quicktopic has 15 messages or less)

Normally QT only displays 15 messages at a time. That won't work for archival purposes. Here's how you fix that:

Switch the quicktopic page to "all messages" mode and then click the "print" button in the bottom left corner. You will then be taken to a new page. Click the big shiny "Show printable page" in the middle. You will be taken to a quicktopic page that looks very similar to the original expanded quicktopic, but it has a new URL.

Step 3: Go to Wayback machine and save it

Click this link

You will see a blank input box begging to be filled with something. Copy and paste the URL you got from Step 2 and click the "Save Page" button. You may get an error, but in that case you just try again. Eventually it will work.

When this happens you will be given a new link. It is a necessity that you save this somewhere, like in a word file. It will be difficult for you to find it again if you lose it. I recommend making a checklist actually

This link is the final archived link. If you click it, you will see a page like the orignal QT, but saved from the shutdown. Sometimes you will be taken to an error screen that says URL not found, but ignore it. Sometimes the Wayback machine takes some time to make the pages publicly visible. In a few minutes it will start working.

Make sure you view the page at some point to make sure nothing went wrong, like archiving the wrong chat (it's a mistake I made a few times).


And that's it. Not very hard. If anyone feels inspired by this tutorial, they should post in the thread and publicly claim pages 10, 9, or 8 and help us get this done before the deadline. It only takes around 2 hours to archive a single page's worth of threads, but it's for a good cause. If I do everything on my own, these are the pages that will almost certainly be left behind due to a lack of time. Even if you do just one, it makes a difference.

Ninajed

Thanks for the links Toony.

EDIT: They have now been archived