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Rebuilding FSTDT
BobRumba:
After several weeks of the website being down and no explanation, a few of us thought it might be time to gather a few people together, those in the know, those with some history here, to see if we can figure out a way to get the board restarted, give it a new admin structure, etc. so that we don't find ourselves in this situation again, and we have backups.
I'm not sure the best way to go about this, and I'm only voicing this because no one else seems to have done so, I'm by no means a take-charge kind of person but maybe the first step is we can gather a few people here who have some kind of history with this place, know the ropes in terms of anything from the programming of it to the approval of comments.
I'm hopeful to see this turned into a topic and that people contribute to it, so that we can get the website back, as so many of us love it and would hate to lose it. If there is a forum admin here, can you start a new topic under "general" on the main page and re-post this message there?
Sigmaleph:
If you want me to pin a thread, I will. I'd rather not start a new section, if that's what you're asking.
BobRumba:
--- Quote from: Sigmaleph on May 13, 2018, 09:10:44 pm ---If you want me to pin a thread, I will. I'd rather not start a new section, if that's what you're asking.
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Whatever you can do to boost visibility, and hopefully get some action...I think it's important enough given the circumstances.
RavynousHunter:
I understand the underlying technology well enough; barring the few points of styling info and assets (which could potentially be nicked from an archive.org snapshot), it wouldn't be that difficult to reimplement. The only issue would be that none of the original content (quotes, comments, and accounts) would exist in the hypothetical new version. That, and there's no guarantee that should the original come back, that any data between the two would be able to be reintegrated. Of course, one could always make an API for that.
BobRumba:
--- Quote from: RavynousHunter on May 14, 2018, 09:32:27 am ---I understand the underlying technology well enough; barring the few points of styling info and assets (which could potentially be nicked from an archive.org snapshot), it wouldn't be that difficult to reimplement.
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That is encouraging, so rebuilding seems possible (even if you wouldn't necessarily want to run with the job on an ongoing basis, we could find someone else willing to do that). An old archives is desirable but obviously we'll work with what we've got. And shy could return at any time as well.
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