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Migrating the forum to Discourse

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drussell:

--- Quote from: james_s on April 25, 2021, 06:26:50 pm ---They must be doing *something* right based on the way it's spreading everywhere, but damned if I know what. Maybe it's just slick marketing, or the social media junkies that I can't begin to relate to.

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More whitespace and mobile "fashionality" ??

P.S.  Where am I, and why am I in this handbasket??!

aandrew:
My biggest issue with Forums (like this one) and Discourse is how all the data is "locked in" to this site. If our fearless leader decides one day to close up shop, that's it. There's no public backup, no public database and no way to archive the site as it is so it could be searched on something like the internet archive.

Mailing lists and IRC are pretty much the peak of technical discourse, IMO.  (insert "old man yells at cloud" pic here)

james_s:
I hate mailing lists, I already get enough spam as it is without getting dozens of emails from some mailing list. IRC was cool back in the 90s when I was a teenager but I'm not really a fan of online chatting in general. Forums like this work really well for me, although it would be convenient if there was some sort of archive or a way to export threads of interest. Bottom line there I guess is nothing lasts forever, especially nothing on the internet, somebody has to maintain it or it eventually returns to that from which it came. 

SilverSolder:

Hopefully, if Dave ever gets tired of running the EEVBlog, it will be handed on as a going concern to "someone or something"...   but it is hard to ignore that Dave is uniquely good at this, and any successor likely to mess it up (with tons of white space, for example!) :D

drussell:

--- Quote from: aandrew on April 25, 2021, 11:21:22 pm ---...no way to archive the site as it is so it could be searched on something like the internet archive.
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wget?

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