Archiving my posts now. What else should I save?

"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro)
11/04/2019 at 13:00 • Filed to: kinja'd

Despite the recent message about G/O Media “reevaluating” the deletion of user posts, I’m going to continue archiving a bunch of stuff before it can disappear “in the coming weeks”. Good thing I’ve never been much of a shitposter. Makes it much easier to go through my stuff and pick out the ones worth saving.

(Special thanks to !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! for that helpful browser extension!)

I won’t be archiving my JRitS roundups, but there are other posts that I put a lot of work into and am particularly proud of, like these:

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I also want to keep my project posts & write-ups:

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Come to think of it, posts that got shared to Jalopnik are going away too, aren’t they? !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! got published to Jalopnik, so it’s probably safe. But I guess I better archive these shared ones too while I’m at it:

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Enough about me, though. There has been some great content here over the years and I want to save that too:

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No doubt I’m forgetting a lot of great posts. What else ought to be preserved? Share links to your favorites in the comments below.

DISCUSSION (13)

jimz > Urambo Tauro
11/04/2019 at 13:10

I might do my “mule vs. prototype” one, but it’s not really long form so I could probably just put another one together if needed.

vondon302 > Urambo Tauro
11/04/2019 at 13:13

That washing machine post was golden especially after I saw this.

Good times

Urambo Tauro > jimz
11/04/2019 at 13:13

I remember that! Was sad to see it disappear. I hope you just un-published it to drafts or something instead of deleting it altogether.

jimz > Urambo Tauro
11/04/2019 at 13:16

https://oppositelock.kinja.com/whats-the-difference-between-a-mule-and-a-prototype-1830760131

Chariotoflove > Urambo Tauro
11/04/2019 at 13:17

There’s so much, but I’m glad you’re taking a stab at it.

I would like to save my Oppocrumb Tinies series. Maybe that’s a little vain (it is shitposting after all), but I got a lot of giggles out of the responses, and I’d hate to lose them.

Ash78, voting early and often > Urambo Tauro
11/04/2019 at 13:19

I wouldn’t even know where to start...I have probably 20,000 - 30,000 posts here over the years, including maybe 100 of my more “formal” satire pieces (of which I have drafts in Word, usually) . This was always a place that, no matter who the owners, I could count on them to host and archive everything.

Ah, well. Hold on loosely, etc.

jimz > vondon302
11/04/2019 at 13:19

I remember finding out that a hell of a lot of people like to post videos of their washing machines. Then I realized I had spent almost an hour watching videos of washing machines.

I looked at the profiles of a couple of those people and they seemed to be borderline autistic.

then I remembered that I had spent almost an hour watching videos of washing machines.

Mister Win Blames People, Not Guns > Urambo Tauro
11/04/2019 at 13:20

I’ve got a few nonsense blogs i can’t save because my computer is kill. My blog is themarvelous1310 .kinja.com, and my email is the same thing at Gmail... That is, if you feel like it.

Urambo Tauro > Chariotoflove
11/04/2019 at 13:21

Oh yeah, that was fun!

Urambo Tauro > jimz
11/04/2019 at 13:22

Oh I forgot you made a new version of it. Th anks for the link!

Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > Urambo Tauro
11/04/2019 at 13:27

Im trying to figure out how to use MHTML to save everything since that definitely seems pretty easy and keeps things in the original format as posted on kinja. Just a pain to get it to work in Chrome or Firefox and I hate hate hate IE for anything. But I will just have to sit down for a few hours and suffer through it some night this week. Too many trips I have written up and compiled here on Oppo mainly for my own memories, sure I have the photos all backed up but the stories with the curated photos are worth saving for sure. I should have backed them up a long time ago but the second best time to do something that I should have done is certainly now!

Urambo Tauro > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
11/04/2019 at 13:31

Yeah there’s a chance that this might end up being a false alarm, but I’m not taking that risk.

Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > Urambo Tauro
11/04/2019 at 13:48

Exactly my stance on it. Its not a bad idea to have backups regardless. Other disasters could always occur causing some sort of server reset or whatever. Would definitely feel like a loss to lose some of the stuff. Sure there is a ton of junk that is fine to lose but at least a dozen or so posts I would absolutely hate to lose.