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Please find a way to save the website. Please please please please.

Why can't the host be able to make a copy of what's on the server if they are hosting it? Is it encrypted?

Please there must be a way to keep the website alive. Somebody contact archive.org if they could run a crawler to save everything, scripts included.



There MUST be a way to save the forum. The stories... the patches... the role playing... the secret santas... the help provided and solutions found... all... everything... no... a website that I love disappearing is my preservation needs' biggest fear.



Please somebody... find a way to backup the forum database...



At least... somebody... tell me there's a Discord server at least where we'll all be...



The forum software is running on a virtual machine hosted in the cloud on a provider called Linode. This virtual machine is like a virtual computer inside another computer. All Linode does is provide said virtual computers and hosts it on their network. Meanwhile, the operating system inside of it is completely self-managed by whoever has actual console access and root login to the OS running inside the virtual machine. If the admins don't have any login credentials to the OS inside the virtual machine, then there isn't a way to actually get to the internal file system to get to the website. Even then, last i remembered reading, the website is hosted using 2 virtual machines, one having the forum software, and the other housing the actual database with all the posts. So it's not just sufficient to get to the server running the website, but also the database behind the website.Only thing us outsiders can really do is either:Manually download posts of interest using the browser's built in save function (takes forever)Setup a script to download the website verbatim (would be a MASSIVE task that could very well exceed hundreds of gigabytes with a large percentage of floof while the actual content would be a smaller portion of that).Make a web crawler that can parse what and where the actual posts and content are, and store that into a new database. (Hard, would take a lot of coding and algorithms, but theoretically doable)Someone ACTUALLY did the last option. Thank you Infy♫ for proving it is actually doable. He has provides a .CSV database of the entire MoTK Corpus later in this thread.)Either way, it's a monumental task. IF anyone has the hardware, software and time to do it, there's a good chance they might very well archive it.