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The Infidel wrote: ↑2022-02-27 09:43am I miss when this place was alive. There was always this person who was an actual expert on stuff. Darth Wong on engineering, Kamikaze Sith when it came to police matters in the US, Coffee and his stories about flooring, Seraphina, Duchess of Zeon and others taught me a lot about transgender people and their problems, Starglider when it came to weird computer stuff. Kanastrous about movie sets and how stuff are done in movies. Thanas kept us in check when Dalton was too busy. These days, I rarely see posts from Dalton anymore. I miss Aly, Wong and so many people. So many are gone...

Still around. Life gets in the way though. So it goes.

I'd actually love to know why some of them stopped posting.

Real life? Nothing we could do a about that.

They found the 'culture' becoming Toxic?
That we could do something about.

I lurked for a long time as without any real expertise in anything I knew I’d lose the flame wars

I do miss the heavy hitters though, Wong especially since the main site was what got me interested.

I don't even REMEMBER how I landed here. I miss TYB, and Ghost Rider, and as mentioned JME2.

The Infidel wrote: ↑2022-02-27 09:43amI hope Mike will keep this server up even when people have stopped posting, as I use it to read up on stuff. Sometimes checking 10 year old threads.

It'd be understandable if Mike decided to shut the place down one day, it costs money and time to keep operational. I'd hope at least there'd be an archive made available in that case. IE I'm re-reading the 2014 Ukraine livethread right now and it's a fascinating time capsule and interesting to see so many prophetic calls proven right in hindsight.

Might be worth starting an effort to create said Archive. It actually wouldn't be that hard.

How to archive this website (into say, PDFS)
To begin with - you'd need a MOD onboard with this, for subsections of the board that are 'restricted'

Now, actually doing it.

This is how each Sub-Forum is set up.

(Science Fiction)
http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewforum.php?f=4
http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewforum.php?f=4&start=50
http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewforum. ... &start=100
etc
Down to the final page;
http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewforum. ... tart=12750
Note: It shows 50 threads per page.

Each page, for the threads on it, shows the start, and last 'post page', in Groups of 25, for each thread.

i.e "The Orville"
http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=166753
http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic. ... &start=100
http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic. ... &start=200 (Page 9)

It would be very, very simple to get each Forum page, and then each thread # and their final 'start' point

With that list, you could easily generate a list of links to every thread and it's pages on the board, and to add the code to make it the printable view (no avatar icons)

When I download a discussion form, I load that information into Microsoft Access, and tell it to spit the information out into a table.

Then it's a simple matter to drop it into an old file downloader (i.e Flashget), complete with destination file names.
Or just toss some more VBA code into Access and have it do it.

i.e
Download
http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=166753
to
F_4_T_166753_P_001
(Forum 4, Thread 166753, Page 1)

From there, a little more vba coding, and you can splice the thread pages together into one file.

Do that for all 250,000+ threads, and you have your Archive.

Would take me a few days to a week at most. That's including download time.

Elheru Aran wrote: ↑2022-02-24 05:39pm

Col. Crackpot wrote: ↑2022-02-23 12:51pm

Elheru Aran wrote: ↑2022-02-23 12:23pm

Discord does have a "thread" feature where you can create a subgroup apart from the main chat if you want to discuss stuff in depth. The SDN Discord has threads for Wordle and movie and TV discussion, for example, as well as the main chat and another chat for the STGOD.

The threads vanish after >24hrs of no activity, but you can still post in them to bump them back up!

Let’s say someone had a discord account. How might one join this fabled discord server?

PM Ace Pace, Dartzap, Phongn or TimothyC. They'll send you an invite code.

https://discord.gg/eBggHPT

Ace Pace wrote: ↑2022-03-05 04:25pm

Elheru Aran wrote: ↑2022-02-24 05:39pm

Col. Crackpot wrote: ↑2022-02-23 12:51pm

Let’s say someone had a discord account. How might one join this fabled discord server?

PM Ace Pace, Dartzap, Phongn or TimothyC. They'll send you an invite code.

https://discord.gg/eBggHPT

Can anybody here use that link?

Worked for me first go.

Duckie, Pick, Coffee, Havok..

I still occasionally find myself asking 'What would Shroomy do?'

Oh god, Shroom. I think the only term I can use for him is indescribable.

Elheru Aran wrote: ↑2022-02-24 05:39pm PM Ace Pace, Dartzap, Phongn or TimothyC. They'll send you an invite code.

Here's one that's good for a week. You can also pm me if need

https://discord.gg/U8Dawezh

Shroom is on the chat, too!

Batman wrote: ↑2022-02-28 09:28pm I don't even REMEMBER how I landed here. I miss TYB, and Ghost Rider, and as mentioned JME2.

I miss TYB too.

For some reason I also miss Spanky The Dolphin. I don't post or read here enough to really know why. He was going to school in the town where I was born before he stopped posting.

I also kind of miss DPDarkPrimus because the first DP always meant "Double Penetration" because I watched too much porn.

I also miss Darth Wong for various reasons. One of which is that I bought a DVD of a porn he used to recommend on his Q&A part of the website. I'm not really into gangbang videos but the DVD had the cool feature of allowing you to watch with the music on or off.

Darth Lucifer wrote: ↑2022-02-24 03:21pm Darth Servo was a friend from the old StarTrek.com forums as well as a prolific vs. debater during the height of the debate.

+1 for the Testing crew, even Schuyler Colfax

Even some of the people who were V.I.'ed at one point were interesting to read, like Duchess of Zeon who I remember as a rabid Randroid

RIP Havok, GR and Nitram, we miss you

I remember Servo, it wasn't until I happened to read about it years later that I realised he must have been an MST3K fan. It was the vs. debates on the ST.com forums that actually led me here to begin with, must have been at least a decade and a half ago. The ST.com message boards themselves were shut down years ago, I must have gotten some 30,000 posts. I'd largely left a while before they pulled the plug.

Anyone miss TRR? He'd have been having a field day with all that's going down in Ukraine if he wasn't so stupid as to actually ask to be perma-banned.

EnterpriseSovereign wrote: ↑2022-03-20 10:46pm
Anyone miss TRR? He'd have been having a field day with all that's going down in Ukraine if he wasn't so stupid as to actually ask to be perma-banned.

Nope, not missing TRR at all.

EnterpriseSovereign wrote: ↑2022-03-20 10:46pm Anyone miss TRR? He'd have been having a field day with all that's going down in Ukraine if he wasn't so stupid as to actually ask to be perma-banned.

Yeah. I felt sorry for him a lot, and I hope that wherever he is, he's okay.

EnterpriseSovereign wrote: ↑2022-03-20 10:46pm Anyone miss TRR? He'd have been having a field day with all that's going down in Ukraine if he wasn't so stupid as to actually ask to be perma-banned.

Yeah I mentioned him before.

I don't so much miss him as miss the endless activity he prompted.

But yeah, I hope he's okay and happier now, but he's probably losing his shit over Ukraine.

I was looking at the Ukraine thread and realised I miss Sea Skimmer, his military/geopolitical analysis was always incredibly insightful.

Steel wrote: ↑2022-03-21 11:09am I was looking at the Ukraine thread and realised I miss Sea Skimmer, his military/geopolitical analysis was always incredibly insightful.

It's been almost 2 years since he was last seen, I only directly talked with him once IIRC, in this thread from 4 years ago, it was an interesting if brief discussion

EnterpriseSovereign wrote: ↑2022-03-21 12:46pm

Steel wrote: ↑2022-03-21 11:09am I was looking at the Ukraine thread and realised I miss Sea Skimmer, his military/geopolitical analysis was always incredibly insightful.

It's been almost 2 years since he was last seen, I only directly talked with him once IIRC, in this thread from 4 years ago, it was an interesting if brief discussion

His stories on Fanfiction.net haven't been updated since just after Biden won the POTUS.

Broomstick wrote: ↑2022-02-22 04:25am I miss Thanas. Not my favorite person, we didn't really like each other much, but I had respect for his knowledge and he often made me think or re-think topics.

What happened to Thanas?

I don't know but I haven't seen him post in quite awhile.

Yeah, count me in for missing JME2 too.

I hope that if the forum does go down, we get a chance to archive it. There are some great threads on here. The old DCAU episode threads that JME2 and I would make every time a new Justice League episode came on. The SDNWorld stuff. Zaia's Babysitting Adventure. All cherished memories...