Static Webpages of Forum Threads

Johannes Loher johannesloher at fg4f.de
Mon May 13 07:40:37 UTC 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...


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