Comment on "This Is Why Preservation Matters" - 14 Years Of RPG Maker Community Content Is About To Be Erased
Zarxrax@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Well, they aren’t closing the forum until the end of the year, so that’s plenty of time for people to scrape it.
WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today 3 days ago
The issue is making it accessible for people new to it to be able to find.
cheesorist@lemmy.world 2 days ago
while they could keep it up as an archive, theyre a company after all. giving a 6 month notice beforehand is a nice thing these days, i can probably scrape the site to some degree, index it, and serve it with a basic file server, and im not that skilled compared to other people in these regards
so if the community is dedicated, i bet they will probably spin up an archival project
i am not saying this to give the company a pass, i am saying it for people who fear it will be hard to archive