Save Our Stories


DarkGob

 

Posted

blackjak's thread reminded me that many players have fiction pieces posted to sections outside the Roleplaying forums. Stories that are expressions of gratitude for the creative freedom found in City Of Heroes. Such creativity is worth preserving.

I am working to save the forum fiction this fantastic community has created over the past 8+ years.

There is hope that I can get through the Roleplaying forum by November 30th. But there is no way for me to also sift through the thousands of other threads in Virtue forums, Union forums, General forum, etc, that may contain original character origins, fanfics, and other fiction pieces. Not by myself...



I need heroes!

Mission Objective: Find the hidden forums stories. Then reply to this thread or drop a PM with the link.

Please help! I can't do this on my own.




Stories are being archived to http://tiny.cc/cohrp so they can survive after the forums go *poof*


Thank you for your help in this heroic effort!


 

Posted

If your concern is that the forums will be gone November 30 and you are trying to save everything you can....

There is software that can rip a website - take a snapshot if you will to your hard drive. Been a while since I've done that, so I can't recommend one offhand..... but.......

Theres also the wayback machine - a website that archives websites.

Here is a snapshot of CoH forums way back to July 2012... http://web.archive.org/web/201107191...yofheroes.com/

and another back to February 2004.... http://web.archive.org/web/200605222...ubbthreads.php

hope this is of some use.


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"Just cause you don't understand what's going on don't mean it don't make no sense
And just cause you don't like it, don't mean it ain't no good" - Suicidal Tendancies

 

Posted

I'll do you one better, T&A -- the entire forums have already been fully archived and are available for download on Archive.org.


"You don't lose levels. You don't have equipment to wear out, repair, or lose, or that anyone can steal from you. About the only thing lighter than debt they could do is have an NPC walk by, point and laugh before you can go to the hospital or base." -Memphis_Bill
We will honor the past, and fight to the last, it will be a good way to die...