The forums at equipped.org -- a massive knowledge base that should not be lost

Hey folks. A personal request. The "survival forum" at equipped.org is mostly dormant. The site owner is generously keeping it alive and online, on his dime.

I can only say I was heavily involved in this forum for a decade, and the moderation was thoughtful and consistent with the Permies philosophy of respectfulness. There is a LOT of good material here. It would be a damn shame if this immense well of practical wisdom simply vanished into the digital ether.

I don't think the forum itself will revive. Time and tide wait for no-one.

I wonder if some of you folks might want to search into this forum while it still exists. Use your search engine to find a topic site:forums.equipped.org

Cheers from "dougwalkabout."  

http://forums.equipped.org/ubbthreads.php?ubb=cfrm

Someone could (should?) run a scraper to mirror the content as a snapshot archive.

I don't know how much has been captured at archive.org . It's all publicly available.

BTW I've been around long enough to know that we will be asking the same questions about this forum, and how to preserve it, and who will pay, and what might be lost. My 2c.

Internet Archive is spotty at best with forums like this, even when they're not walled gardens. The way to do it is to make a replica on purpose, then stand it up as a static HTML archive. Takes only the disk space needed for the content, and a bare minimum of compute resources to serve without the overhead of the forums application.

And yes, someday someone will be asking the same questions here...best to plan ahead.