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Internet forums are disappearing because now it's all Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. (www.xataka.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months 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.