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Internet forums are disappearing because now it's all Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. (www.xataka.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

So this pretty much happened with feddit.de

The admin took off for a business trip and his backup forgot the password and locked himself out. Now the admin seems to have vanished and the server shit itself, making all previously posted pictures unavailable.

The solution is that a bunch of lemmings are forming a "Verein" (Kind of Like a club I suppose?) and will build an entirely new German instance.

So, it's not pretty.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    If someone hasn't written a software package to do so already, it's probably possible to write one to dump and clone all the comments and posts on a server.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    The comments fortunately are still there, but the images are all gone. They had some trouble that was image-related which led to the server collapsing at some stage. I can't recall the specifics unfortunately.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Are those posts/comments/images available on other instances?

    If an instance just shuts down, we just lose all that content? Sounds like a pretty fatal flaw.

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