Posting to show my interest in joining the archival efforts. Certain standout games are missing from the notable games archive, like Vector's masterpiece
The Lonely Prince: He Who Shall Serve (also known as princess mafia). I swear it used to be there cause I can't imagine how else I could have discovered it.
Anyway, I'll be archiving that as well as other games. I'm a foolish optimist who wants to archive the quicktopic of every single game on this forum. In a week or two I'll tell you how much progress I actually made. Then I might adjust my priorities.
We're also gonna have to figure out a method of hosting this.
This really sucks no matter how you put it.
Quick notes based on early efforts:
-Initial testing with wayback machine failed. You get the first page, but none of the buttons work. What makes it worse though is that quicktopic buttons somehow manage to navigate through a page without changing the link, so you can't even archive all of the pages individually. Shame, it would have solved the hosting issues.
-Using Quicktopic's print page feature in the bottom-left corner gives you a pdf of the topic in "all messages" mode. This gives you all of the information needed for a game. It is adequate. Will need to find a way to host.
-New Breakthrough, you can switch the quicktopic page to "all messages" mode and then click the print "Show printable page". This link actually changes the URL, and thus can be pasted into the Wayback machine and be saved properly. I tested it and wayback lets you see the print preview of the page! The final link is incredibly long, but this is a method I consider "complete".
EDIT:
Important note: You have to immediately click "Show printable page", if you change any of the settings then wayback fails to archive the page for some reason. This poses a problem for multi-page quicktopics. The solution though is to simply click the "All messages" button before you click the "print" button. Then immediately click "Show printable page" like usual.
-Wayback machine is not searchable though, so it's important to keep a copy of the links after you archive them. Thankfully, links are easy to host. You can host them on these very forums. The utopian in me imagines a day when someone makes a bot moderator that crawls through this board and replaces the old quick-topic links with the new wayback ones.
Anyway, that's all I have for now. I'm gonna try to do as many of these as possible in the next couple of weeks. There are around 650 games here in total so hopefully Wayback doesn't get mad at me for making so many of these. I'll report any issues I find.
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