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Instance shutdown per 31 Oct 2023 - what's next for /c/fountainpens?
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this post was submitted on 08 Oct 2023
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That's unfortunate, thank you for giving it a solid try!
My primary instance is stable, and the admin is quite able. I'd consider stepping up. I definitely don't want to be the only mod for any period of time. It's not just the time commitment, it's the implicit non-democratic status of the sub when one person makes all the mod calls. I'm @____@infosec.pub there, incidentally.
Edit: Went ahead and created it as a placeholder, pending any necessary further discussion or other volunteers here. !fountainpens@infosec.pub
Since content is instance-dependent, it might be nice to have a mirror on some other stable instance - not sure how to sync them so both get each others' posts, but don't duplicate though. This group in particular tends to have a lot of high-quality content and losing it is a blow - especially to noobs, who we actively want to be friendly and accessible to.
Is there a library for the API? Would be nice to seed a new community with some/all of the content here, if you don't object. Not like the reddit mirror bot posting a ton of things, but for initial content. Would prefer not to lose it all.
@MidwayTheMagnificent I guess you could always archive posts and whatnot on wayback machine or archive.ph and follow the fediverse links for the full discussions? (i.e. the fediverse icon next to each comment/post).
I'll try and archive myself as many threads as possible as well.
It sucks because I found many interesting communities on this server besides the Fountain Pen one.
Thanks @hsl for your hard work!
@____
That could work and is simpler - Might be scriptable, have to think on that. Don't recall whether the request archive button is a GET or POST. Parsing out the links to posts and throwing away the others would be straightforward, 'if /post/ in url'
I do know that I won't get to it today - my work is finance-adjacent, and with a deadline in the next week, work is keeping me rather busier than usual.
@MidwayTheMagnificent There's still some time until 31st of October I guess 😁
I just looked - six pages of posts. Might not even bother scripting, that's not a ton of copy/paste.
@MidwayTheMagnificent I personally just finished archiving @onebag @happiness and @solotravel. Both on wayback machine and on archive.ph for redundance. I archived both post links and post links with
?scrollToComments=true. Good luck with the rest whenever you can if you start to 😁 It's already late here for me.Hi there! Your text contains links to other Lemmy communities, here are correct links for Lemmy users: !onebag@wayfarershaven.eu, !happiness@wayfarershaven.eu, !solotravel@wayfarershaven.eu
@CommunityLinkFixer Those ones, yeah!