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Static Webpages of Forum Threads
May 13, 2019
Walter Bright
May 13, 2019
Jonathan M Davis
May 13, 2019
Johannes Loher
May 13, 2019
Walter Bright
May 15, 2019
Vladimir Panteleev
May 13, 2019
On Monday, May 13, 2019 1:45:27 AM MDT Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d- announce wrote:
> I run it manually whenever I think of it, which is erratically, because I've tried repeatedly to set up a cron job to do it, but somehow it never runs. Bah.

Clearly, you're not yelling at it enough. ;)

- Jonathan M Davis



May 13, 2019
Am 13.05.19 um 09:45 schrieb Walter Bright:
> A request for this was made at DConf (I think by Nicholas) and we're
> already doing it:
> 
>   https://www.digitalmars.com/NewsGroup.html
> 
> Just click on the items under the "Archive" column. It's all there, back to the first post. It's organized as one page per thread.
> 
> The web pages are created by this rather hackish and wretched program:
> 
>   https://github.com/DigitalMars/ngArchiver
> 
> I run it manually whenever I think of it, which is erratically, because I've tried repeatedly to set up a cron job to do it, but somehow it never runs. Bah.

Thanks for the links, Walter. I still think that we should make them easily available from either the website or the forums. I believe Mike already mentioned that during the AGM. Is there anybody already working on that?

Is there any way in which we can help you in automating the process of archiving? Your time seems to be much too valuable to be taken up by things like this...
May 13, 2019
A request for this was made at DConf (I think by Nicholas) and we're already doing it:

  https://www.digitalmars.com/NewsGroup.html

Just click on the items under the "Archive" column. It's all there, back to the first post. It's organized as one page per thread.

The web pages are created by this rather hackish and wretched program:

  https://github.com/DigitalMars/ngArchiver

I run it manually whenever I think of it, which is erratically, because I've tried repeatedly to set up a cron job to do it, but somehow it never runs. Bah.
May 13, 2019
On 5/13/2019 12:40 AM, Johannes Loher wrote:
> Thanks for the links, Walter. I still think that we should make them
> easily available from either the website or the forums. I believe Mike
> already mentioned that during the AGM. Is there anybody already working
> on that?

I don't know if there's anyone working on it, but PRs are welcome.


> Is there any way in which we can help you in automating the process of
> archiving? Your time seems to be much too valuable to be taken up by
> things like this...

Thanks for the offer, but it doesn't really take up any time. I wrote the program long ago, and I just run the script to drive it now and then.
May 15, 2019
On Monday, 13 May 2019 at 07:40:37 UTC, Johannes Loher wrote:
> I still think that we should make them easily available from either the website or the forums.

On the forum front page, in the right column, you will find an "Archive" link.

> I believe Mike already mentioned that during the AGM. Is there anybody already working on that?

I wasn't at this year's DConf. Could you please explain what's lacking in the HTML pages generated by the forum software?