Support offer from an IT guy
Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2025 10:38 pm
Hey there!
This site has accompanied me for many years. Though I am much less present nowadays that I have a partner and more life stuff going on, coming back is still sentimental.
I almost thought the site was dead because I was not aware of the move and only rediscovered the new domain by accident!
Regardless of their policies, the hoster should have allowed you to transfer the domain with an auth code so you can put a redirect and continue using the domain.
Anyways, here we are.
I came here because things can change, people can move on - but the content of this forum is worth preservation.
Is it possible to provide some kind of export that I could archive locally?
Going further, I do some hosting professionally on the side and could see if we could provide some resources as well - question is what you even run on that you need a hoster? Just renting a VM would be the most neutral option I think, provides of VMs are usually not concerned about the contents of what's hosted there.
And when it comes to the encoding stuff - this should be a quick database query to fix.
Asking each author to fix their posts individually, and especially the suggestion with ChatGPT, seems not very ideal - it can work but there are much more reliable approaches.
This site has accompanied me for many years. Though I am much less present nowadays that I have a partner and more life stuff going on, coming back is still sentimental.
I almost thought the site was dead because I was not aware of the move and only rediscovered the new domain by accident!
Regardless of their policies, the hoster should have allowed you to transfer the domain with an auth code so you can put a redirect and continue using the domain.
Anyways, here we are.
I came here because things can change, people can move on - but the content of this forum is worth preservation.
Is it possible to provide some kind of export that I could archive locally?
Going further, I do some hosting professionally on the side and could see if we could provide some resources as well - question is what you even run on that you need a hoster? Just renting a VM would be the most neutral option I think, provides of VMs are usually not concerned about the contents of what's hosted there.
And when it comes to the encoding stuff - this should be a quick database query to fix.
Asking each author to fix their posts individually, and especially the suggestion with ChatGPT, seems not very ideal - it can work but there are much more reliable approaches.