Update on potential full Kinja archives

"Kar Wai Wong" (kingawesome467)
11/12/2020 at 14:53 • Filed to: kinjapocalypse, kinjapocalypse 2020, kinja, archive, archives, Oppo Archives, Oppo, Oppositelock

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I meant to finish this earlier. !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . If there are no hiccups, and all of it is being transferred, that’s good news! And therefore, I don’t know how useful the rest of this post is going to be, but oh well. You can never have too many backups.

I contacted the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! again, said that the archiving project is underway, and I got confirmation that comments are being included. I also 100% made sure they didn’t miss out Oppo. It’s looking good!

!!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! trying to contact the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! subreddit, a group of people that like, well, hoarding data. I posted there, but I received no meaningful responses. I did contact someone from a !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! about possible Kinja archives. They said they lost the data drive, but did keep the script, and are currently downloading stuff again. They haven’t responded in a few days though. I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt, but it’s not hard to be anxious with the situation. Would the code even be useful?

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Should things go dire, I did find some sort of aggregate site called !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! that takes content from other sites, and Oppo happens to be one of them. Far from ideal, images are all cropped to a certain size, they don’t copy stuff like authors, image captions and most crucial of all, comments, but they do keep tags. I don’t know what determines which stuff they take: if you look at my !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , I currently have 8 entries. !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , and you’ll see it has saved 5, including Chevrolet Part 2, but not Chevrolet Part 1. View the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , and it’s not especially clear how things are sorted or saved, as opposed to the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , which seems mostly up to date. The site seems to prefer longer articles? I have no idea how far back it goes too. Should the others all drop the ball and all else fails, it could be a last ditch effort to retrieve at least a very small portion of Oppo, and hopefully save lots of the longer, high-effort posts (Sorry shitposts). Let’s hope it never comes to it.

DISCUSSION (8)

Thomas Donohue > Kar Wai Wong
11/12/2020 at 14:59

You know, I put a lot of effort into my shit posts. Do you know how hard it is to make memes using MS Paint for Windows 98????

Kinja'd!!!

f86sabre > Kar Wai Wong
11/12/2020 at 15:53

I backed up some of the longer posts that I’ve written to Internet Archive. It seemed to work well.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Kar Wai Wong
11/12/2020 at 15:57

Great news about Archive Team.

Hope the Atom RSS feed also bears fruit into an archive location (I do wonder about the $$$ to host).

Jayvincent > Kar Wai Wong
11/12/2020 at 18:26

you seriously put way too much effort into that lead graphic, which makes me think you are going to put serious effort into lifeboating our archives! thanks in advance and great work

Kar Wai Wong > Jayvincent
11/12/2020 at 18:53

Ha , more like pleading with people that actually have the skills to archive us. I t was like 5 minutes of moving logos around in PowerPoint.

facw > Kar Wai Wong
11/12/2020 at 21:03

Oh, God... PowerPoint? https://xkcd.com/763/

Kar Wai Wong > facw
11/13/2020 at 07:44

Yeah there’s probably a better way, but pasting images into Photoshop removes transparent backgrounds, and I didn’t want to bother downloading them all to avert that. It’s kind of a pain to move them around MS Paint, and in Word, pasted images aren’t text wrapped, so you have to manually change them all, unlike PowerP oint, which is also landscape by default, and presentation mode is useful for a higher res screenshot. The thumb was meant to be something simple that I didn’t want to spend too much effort on anyways.

Stef Schrader > Kar Wai Wong
11/13/2020 at 14:59

Thanks for looking into all of this. I haven’t heard more on the Atom feed yet and it’s driving me nuts in the meantime , so it’s a big relief to see some of these other archive requests are going somewhere. I put the Internet Archive’s browser extension on my main browser and have been clicking “save” on any Oppo pages I visit over the past couple days.