connecting to oooforum.org

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#21

Hi :slight_smile:
+1
I've not been a long term user (or contributor) of the site but i agree with Dave Barton about this.

Maybe if a one or 2 of us could approach the owner?  Let him know there might be a way for him to retain control but also make it easier for him to manage?  It sounds like a simple day-to-day chore took down the website and that could be taken care of by someone or some organisation he could delegate that sort of thing too?

Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#22

He is surely renting hosting space from some company, and surely they possibly have the means to assist in the day to day maintenance, i.e fixing common issues, running tasks and housekeeping not involved in probing into restricted parts of the web pages, flagging him of web issues, which he deems private (only he can access and work with) content, issues such as spam, and blocking it.

Really, so easy to resolve even if one does not have time for a supposedly public web space.

Andrew Brown

#23

Thanks to specific help from Mirosław Zalewski, I was able to take a dump of the site and store them on my local machine! Yeah! Now, just need to figure out what to do with it!

#24

Right on the money I believe...

Step 1: formulate a proposal that allows the current owner to retain his emotional attachment to the site and yet still allows others to participate in the process.

Step 2: ask him. I am more than happy to do that, but, I lack the skills or time be a real system administrator. So, I suppose that we would also need to have people who would be willing to help with that.

The current forum uses a very old version of the software, would be nice to bring it up to date.

#25

1. Use grep to find files that contain what you need (extremely slow; there are
better solutions with indexed databases, but I have not yet find suitable one).

2. When Google show you result from oooforum.org which is currently down,
remember thread number and open offline copy of this particular file.

At least that is what I would do if I wanted to access data from saved copy :wink: