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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 (2 children)

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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