Resolved/Implemented Posting

Jerry · Apr 27, 2018

If the site is still online but it's just the domain that's gone, then perhaps it's still possible to figure out what the IP address is of the website? Then you can access it by IP rather than domain name.

Other than that, maybe http://web.archive.org still offers a way to retrieve some content?

Somchai · Apr 27, 2018

IP is 95.142.152.194. Doesn't work either. Hosting is expired.
The web archive link is interesting. Will explore further...

Somchai · Apr 27, 2018

Success, just got this snapshot of 12 oct 2017

Somchai · Apr 27, 2018

@haqzore, do you want me to harvest more pages or leave it alone?

GPJake · Apr 27, 2018

Somchai said:
@haqzore, do you want me to harvest more pages or leave it alone?

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Are you familiar with XenForo's database structure? Any idea if we'll be able to import anything once we have it?

Somchai · Apr 27, 2018

No, but I'm never too old to learn.
I used many programming and scripting languages in my life.
Databases is not my expertise, but I'm also no complete noob in that area.
It all depends on how open Xenforo is and what their API offers.
Would have to study it a little before I can answer your question with certainty.

Somchai · Apr 28, 2018

Tried to get some more pages via web.archive.org, but it looks like only the root page is available. Bummer...
If we had the original site still running, it is very likely I could extract all messages with the posting-date and poster-name connected, nicely organized in separate files and folders.
Importing in Xenforo would still be a challenge with scripting, but it certainly could be done manually over the course of a year or so (Maybe a couple of mods could help as well to spread the work-load).
But it's all hypothetical now

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Somchai · Apr 28, 2018

Brammers said:
I could send a snail mail letter to the address?

I think it's worth a shot, since all else failed...