What happened to the lifein19x19 forum? 😱

[JethOrensin]

@ronin3

(unless archive.org managed to save everything)

It rarely does. It saves instances of the main page, but the deeper you go in, the less links are saved for each instance. I was a member in a similar PHPbb forum and out of around three thousands of my posts I could barely find a hundred after it went down. Similar case with another custom made forum. I lost 8000+ posts there.

I’d expect that the only useful things left will be the cases of topics that were “top-heavy”, like guides or collections of information and resources.

Example in OGS:

19x19 FOR BEGINNERS SERIES: PART 5: THE STAGES OF THE GAME

19x19 FOR BEGINNERS SERIES THINGS I WISH I KNEW WHEN I WAS 25 KYU PART 5: THE STAGES OF THE GAME [A quick disclaimer for any readers who are SDK and up: this series was written by a DDK for TPKs, with the goal of making the process of “losing their first 100 games quickly” less confusing and more productive. I say this because I’m aware of how many elements and strategies I’m leaving out given such a broad topic. My reviews of the three games included here will omit a lot of detail, and featu…

The rest, that would require multiple pages to be archived to be useful, will mostly become a slog to go through or will have significant portions missing.

I haven’t checked how OGS forum gets archived, but with its way of loading the posts, it might appear that the pages are saved, but once you start scrolling, they might be mostly empty/not-loading.