GitHub could be acquired by Microsoft

[Walter Bright]

On 6/7/2018 10:01 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> And that is why it's a bad thing to build a walled garden around a code
> repo, esp. when the underlying VCS is well capable of distributed
> development.  If only there has been a standard protocol for
> communicating such associated content, such as PR comments and
> discussions, bugs and issues (this latter not applicable in our case,
> thankfully), then we could have setup an archival system to retrieve and
> store all of this information.  Unfortunately, AFAIK there isn't a way
> to do this, and so if Github for whatever reason shuts down, all of this
> valuable information would be lost forever.

Since I have (most) of the Github discussions in email form, I could do 
something like this if we had to:

https://digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/index.html

There's a program that runs over the NNTP database to generate the static pages:

https://github.com/DigitalMars/ngArchiver