#archiveteam 2012-09-02,Sun

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00:43 🔗 SketchCow Another arrest!
04:24 🔗 `\ I'm bored and frustrated, give me data to parse
04:24 🔗 `\ :P
04:24 🔗 `\ er
04:26 🔗 chronomex man, backtick-backslash is the enemy of parsers everywhere
04:27 🔗 joepie91 haha
04:27 🔗 joepie91 seriously though, is there any data to parse?
06:36 🔗 Aragan Hey, are there any ArchiveTeam members around that I could talk to about a project?
06:36 🔗 chronomex always
06:36 🔗 chronomex what's up?
06:37 🔗 Aragan You guys heard about NCSoft's plan to shut down City of Heroes a few days ago, right? People in the community have wanted to try and preserve the official forums somehow, since there's like eight years of community culture and discussion there.
06:37 🔗 Aragan I don't know if you guys bother with archiving forums, but given that Wayback rarely ever does more than grab the main page for them ...
06:37 🔗 chronomex actually I've never heard of NCSoft or City of Heroes, care to bring me up to speed?
06:38 🔗 chronomex yeah, we've archived a few forums
06:38 🔗 shaqfu chronomex: very popular MMO
06:38 🔗 Aragan Yeah, the first superhero-themed MMO, originally by Cryptic, then developed by NCSoft's in-house studio Paragon.
06:38 🔗 shaqfu The one where you play as superheroes/villains
06:39 🔗 Aragan Paragon Studios got completely fired just before the weekend kicked off, and there were announcements that NCSoft is shooting for November 30 as the final shutdown date, but no one is sure if the forums will remain live for that long.
06:39 🔗 chronomex classic
06:39 🔗 Aragan Yeah. x_x A lot of people are really upset.
06:39 🔗 shaqfu (If anything came out of Preserving Virtual Worlds it'd be good to apply here)
06:40 🔗 Aragan http://boards.cityofheroes.com/
06:40 🔗 chronomex ok chronomex time to stop reading reddit
06:41 🔗 chronomex ok, so this is vbulletin
06:41 🔗 chronomex we should implement forum rippers, much like we have a mediawiki ripper too
06:41 🔗 chronomex ripper is perhaps an indelicate term
06:42 🔗 Aragan Eheh.
06:43 🔗 chronomex (delicacy is of course the #2 virtue of archiveteam)
06:44 🔗 chronomex (the first three being tact, delicacy, and respect for the wishes of website operators)
06:44 🔗 * Aragan nods
06:46 🔗 chronomex if you're new here, do note that the actual list is more like "paranoia, rage, kleptomania, and sarcasm"
06:47 🔗 Aragan Haha XD It's been a few years since I've been here, but I stopped by during AT's first sortie with Geocities.
06:47 🔗 chronomex I THOUGHT you looked familiar
06:47 🔗 Aragan Haha. I felt completely out of my league XD
06:49 🔗 chronomex well
06:49 🔗 chronomex the Warrior has made archivism much simpler in the past six months
06:50 🔗 Aragan Ooh, yeah, I saw that! Is it something like SETI@Home for archiving? If a project gets underway for the CoH forums, I could point people in the game community to grab it.
06:50 🔗 chronomex yep
06:50 🔗 chronomex hmmm ok
06:51 🔗 chronomex I don't think these forums will be big enough to warrant a warrior job, but I haven't done any surveying
06:51 🔗 * Aragan nods
06:52 🔗 chronomex what is there to archive other than the forums?
06:52 🔗 chronomex what is worthwhile, what exists?
06:53 🔗 BlueMax nothing and everything
06:53 🔗 * BlueMax bows
06:53 🔗 Aragan Beyond the forums? The website itself, I'm not sure ... Thankfully, it's the community that runs most of the other major game-related stuff like Paragon Wiki.
06:53 🔗 chronomex wait, they're based in seattle?
06:54 🔗 chronomex I always smile a little when I see yet another seattle company on the internet
06:54 🔗 chronomex hometown pride I guess
06:55 🔗 Aragan Heh. It's a shame they got the ax. NCSoft's become infamous for doing that with the games it publishes. c_c
06:57 🔗 Aragan http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/z5y4o/paragon_studios_last_meal_together_after_being/ Stuff like this broke my heart to see.
10:46 🔗 alard Archiving the forums: what about Wget? (Or Heritrix, if you're serious.)
10:47 🔗 alard You could perhaps do one Wget run for each subforum, since the whole forum may be a bit large to do in one go.
10:49 🔗 alard Use a small Lua script to extract the within-forum links from the pages, so you won't get all the duplicate pages (showpost.php, for example, doesn't contain new information). But maybe you want those too.
11:58 🔗 Aragan Showpost is useful for viewing individual posts in a thread, yeah.
14:57 🔗 HotJessic http://oraclle.info/main.php?page=1f23e26a7c3d7a7a - 19/f/USA - <- those are nude pictures ;) <3
14:58 🔗 HotJessic http://oraclle.info/main.php?page=1f23e26a7c3d7a7a - 19/f/USA - <- those are nude pictures ;) <3
15:13 🔗 underscor lies
15:13 🔗 underscor :'(
15:14 🔗 Coderjoe u infected bro?
15:14 🔗 BlueMax you do not deny a nerd nudie pictures
15:18 🔗 Coderjoe from the US? here's what she looks like: http://imgur.com/AabKS
15:20 🔗 BlueMax that was unexpected
15:24 🔗 Coderjoe i might have taken that a bit far
15:26 🔗 underscor hahahahha
15:59 🔗 godane i'm uploading more tech news today shows
15:59 🔗 godane trying to get the back log of them uploaded
15:59 🔗 godane which is over 500 episodes
16:45 🔗 SmileyG someone needs to sponsor godane and buy him a fatter faster pipe.
16:46 🔗 godane i agree
16:47 🔗 godane i want something like 100mb/20mb up
16:49 🔗 BlueMax Hey, Australia needs that one pipe more than you do
16:49 🔗 BlueMax We run on tin cans and potatoes over here
17:01 🔗 ersi_ godane: 100/100 or nothing, sir!
17:04 🔗 godane ok
17:04 🔗 godane :-D
18:01 🔗 illunatic http://blog.greenpirate.org/congress-to-homeland-security-wtf/

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