The toll I tried gave me Error 403 denied so I guess he’s onto us. I would ask him what it would take to leave it up as an archive if nothing else. No new posts, just static.
Your alternative is to surf like a madman and copy everything you can before he shuts it down.
Has he given a reason for shutting it down?
FT is one of something like 60 sites “the company” runs, and apparently they are shutting all of them down.
...And traffic has been light recently. Late fall through early spring are usually “slow” anyway, unlike FR, where our “masters” in DC and elsewhere come up with new outrages daily, regardless of season.
A couple of the senior / premier members on FT have died off, and I don’t think the management has put much effort into keeping the site hopping, so to speak. In hindsight, I’d say someone should have put some effort into seeing what kept other sites busy, and tried to emulate that. Ditto for looking at what posts / vids on media like You Tube get lots of activity. And so on. But, that said, if all 60 sites are going down, then there are obviously “wider” problems.
Hi, Pollard,
Well, I’ve been saving as much as I can as “Web Page, Complete” (file and folder), and so far have most of my own threads saved, plus some others. It is barely a dent, but other forum members are saving stuff too. One problem is that the downloads to SSD take several seconds, and I have to be careful because if I exit the page too soon to go to the next, Windows assumes I wanted to cancel the download, and does so. No error message, etc. I see it later if I go back over my downloads list. Bah!
I started a thread here on FR asking about saving as *.mhtml (single files), as the web pages download and save much faster, despite using up a bit more drive space, and in viewing them offline, at least for this (FT) website they seem fine. Basically I wanted to know if there are any disadvantages to mhtml saves. The info. I found online was a bit arcane and didn’t seem to indicate anything that would “mess up” re-reading the pages, although images and such are of course not saved individually. That’s not a problem for me.
However, my thread later just totally disappeared, so I assume a FR Mod didn’t like it. No explanation, no PM, nothing. The thread is just gone.
Anyway, perhaps you can weigh in on ‘Web Page, Complete” vs. saving as single *.mhtml files?
I’m copying this to Theo as well.
Thanks!