Kalmor Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 The most recent snapshot was taken on the 10th of September (for the homepage at least).https://web.archive.org/web/20150910041514/https://forums.furaffinity.net/If you receive an error trying to view a thread, make sure you're not just following a link to a post but rather to the whole thread. For example, https://web.archive.org/web/20150910041514/https://forums.furaffinity.net/threads/1551282-Renaming-of-the-forums-POLL?goto=newpost doesn't work but https://web.archive.org/web/20150907102052/https://forums.furaffinity.net/threads/1551282-Renaming-of-the-forums-POLL does.Also, different threads and different pages may have been archived at different times so It may be a bit fiddly to navigate around (making sure all the URLs are valid) and some links will inevitably be dead.Happy hunting! 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArielMT Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 Also, don't forget to try using the Wayback bar at the top to step through time between snapshots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrDingo Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 Wait a sec. I remember creating a snapshot around that time, in fear of the forums being gone forever. But I thought it only did the front page. Well, at any rate, I'm glad the site is preserved in a frozen state. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corto Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 Nice, I thought I had lost the cute dancing signature gif to the ravages of time and my lack of will when it comes to googling stuff up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevilishlyHandsome49 Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 Lots of emotions seeing this. Thanks for posting it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sidewalk Surfboard Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 Seeing that made me kinda sad and kinda happy at the same time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexxx-Returns Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 Is this wayback a permanent fixture?Only asking 'cause I'd like to leave a link to my old sketchbook thread in my new sketchbook thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sidewalk Surfboard Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 Hope you guys don't mind that I saved the front page of Phoenix to the Archive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalmor Posted September 25, 2015 Author Share Posted September 25, 2015 Is this wayback a permanent fixture?Only asking 'cause I'd like to leave a link to my old sketchbook thread in my new sketchbook thread.I think so. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArielMT Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 Hope you guys don't mind that I saved the front page of Phoenix to the ArchiveNow that you've done that, their bot should crawl the forums on an increasingly regular schedule just like search engine spiders. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sidewalk Surfboard Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 Now that you've done that, their bot should crawl the forums on an increasingly regular schedule just like search engine spiders.Is that good or bad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArielMT Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 Is that good or badIt's a good thing. It means our new history will be preserved as well, at least in part. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FenrirDarkWolf Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 Now I can go back and read all the silly stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hewge Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 Oh damnThat place really did look like old trash Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maug Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 that is so cool.My retarded puns will live on forever! thanks Kalmor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clove Darkwave Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 Excellent, there are some critical turning points in my relationships with some people hidden in there. Special little gems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PheagleAdler Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 Always been a fan of Wayback, it helped me find some artwork when I was still exploring several years ago, and now it can preserve the forums, so that's great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hectichusky Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 Whoa, thanks Kalmor! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calemeyr Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 (edited) Oh noes, Wayback hacked user data! Gotta threaten them with stuff too.I suggest someone with the ability to do so download every page indexed by Wayback. Or at least pages that matter. I downloaded the fursuit tutorial OP by Deo, and I linked the indexed page in the fursuiting section here on Phoenix, Edited September 26, 2015 by Calemeyr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sutekh_the_Steak Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 Woah holy shit, apparently I had 1686 posts on FAF. Just over 1 year and 4 months. That's a fucking HUGE tonne more than I thought I'd made, I thought I only had about 500. I found my old avatar too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caretaker Posted September 27, 2015 Share Posted September 27, 2015 Well, the issue that badmin's boss had was with the personal data (email addresses, passwords, dates of birth etc) and bizarrely also the post-edit histories. They never had issue with the public data that is visible to everybody being, well, visible to everybody. Badmin had an issue with me starting this fork from that same public data however.The wayback machine is doing us all a favour right now :3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nrr Posted September 27, 2015 Share Posted September 27, 2015 Oh noes, Wayback hacked user data! Gotta threaten them with stuff too.I suggest someone with the ability to do so download every page indexed by Wayback. Or at least pages that matter. I downloaded the fursuit tutorial OP by Deo, and I linked the indexed page in the fursuiting section here on Phoenix,The irony in this is that it's usually the Internet Archive (or, rather, Jason Scott's Archive Team) calling out for people to download things feverishly to prevent losing them forever. See their home page. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sutekh_the_Steak Posted September 27, 2015 Share Posted September 27, 2015 Aw goddammit, the latest archive image for the Rants and Rave section is from only 2011, one year before I joined FAF. I wanted to see some of the embarrassing rant threads I made. :v Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caretaker Posted September 27, 2015 Share Posted September 27, 2015 Aw goddammit, the latest archive image for the Rants and Rave section is from only 2011, one year before I joined FAF. I wanted to see some of the embarrassing rant threads I made. :vAnd it also skips from about Sep 2013 to January 2014 so it does miss out on that brief moment when private areas were exposed to the public. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArielMT Posted September 27, 2015 Share Posted September 27, 2015 The irony in this is that it's usually the Internet Archive (or, rather, Jason Scott's Archive Team) calling out for people to download things feverishly to prevent losing them forever. See their home page.I was watching that unfold (and powerless to help) when Yahoo finally and too-suddenly killed off GeoCities. How many gems were lost because one of the largest and longest-lasting free hosting communities was milked to the limit by the corporation that bought it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Summercat Posted September 27, 2015 Share Posted September 27, 2015 I was watching that unfold (and powerless to help) when Yahoo finally and too-suddenly killed off GeoCities. How many gems were lost because one of the largest and longest-lasting free hosting communities was milked to the limit by the corporation that bought it?not quite the burning of the Library of Alexandria, but still a major loss. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sutekh_the_Steak Posted September 27, 2015 Share Posted September 27, 2015 And it also skips from about Sep 2013 to January 2014 so it does miss out on that brief moment when private areas were exposed to the public.Wow, I had no idea that even happened. That was after I stopped posting I guess.Were all the posts and threads about the fuck-up from that period deleted? If not then shouldn't they still be included in the later archived pages? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrishaCat Posted September 28, 2015 Share Posted September 28, 2015 (edited) Trying to search for things when FAF disallowed users without accounts to use the search function or look at user profiles makes this difficult. I want to find my Pokemon opening parody post I made a long time ago. Edited September 28, 2015 by Battlechili Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#00Buck Posted September 28, 2015 Share Posted September 28, 2015 Spilled bottle of pee is one for the ages.Glub... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FenrirDarkWolf Posted September 28, 2015 Share Posted September 28, 2015 Trying to search for things when FAF disallowed users without accounts to use the search function or look at user profiles makes this difficult. I want to find my Pokemon opening parody post I made a long time ago.You mean this~~~~ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrishaCat Posted September 28, 2015 Share Posted September 28, 2015 You mean this~~~~I'm so glad someone saved this. Thank you.Although without context its not quite as good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrydan Posted September 28, 2015 Share Posted September 28, 2015 Thanks for the link! Also happy Wayback took its snapshots. It is a shame when history is lost. It is for that reason I sort of overkill on backups. A shame the old place couldn't be forked, but in its own way it is also a good thing too! Now it is in no way associated with someone who clearly does not know what they are doing. It is sad to see someone who thinks listening to the public and differing staff opinion is the worse thing ever. Why listen to the public when you get paid money to do whatever you wish and still have furs coming back just because "reasons"? Such mysteries and more may never be solved... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrishaCat Posted November 3, 2015 Share Posted November 3, 2015 (edited) Can someone help me find that thread where I linked a bunch of some of the weirdest online dating sites? I had a huge list that I posted somewhere back on FAF. Edited November 3, 2015 by Battlechili Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zaraphayx Posted November 3, 2015 Share Posted November 3, 2015 My posting ages like fine wine. :^) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terminal7 Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 I'm so happy this is here. There's a few things I wanted to look back on and some things I want to read that I might have missed. Cheers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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