Could we crowdfund it? There are at least a few of us who want to see it done…
Could the forums be converted from php to html? Then you have no security concerns.
One of the biggest security concerns i can think of is the user database as it contains emails and passwords. I was hoping that it could be removed to take away that risk and shrink the total size.
[Edit] Out of curiosity, what was the forum software that was used?
vbulletin
I had already contacted vBulletin and there is no way to do a ‘text-only’ mode without hosting the entire vb forum infrastructure in place. Also the sheer size and scope of whats on there would make it an impossibly hard task.
As for crowdfunding the hosting costs; again we tried to do that on RN a year or so before we shutdown where I outlined the details of the hosting costs, and the exact costs, etc. The response was barely room temperature for anyone offering to throw down money save for maybe 3 people.
Out of curiosity, what’s the total size of the forums, and/or the whole site and subdomains?
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Dam, I’m late here. The entire forum could have simply been crawled and copied to html with htttrack:
https://www.httrack.com/
Then you just put the html files in zip file(s), for people to download and view offline. I’ve done this with a couple websites before.
@novaburn, if any of you guys has the time and can setup a local/offline copy of the forums; this is a 100% free solution to get a backup into people’s hands. Those forums were a goldmine of modding information, and web.archive.org’s backup is very spotty.
Hi,
what are the cost to host it? With the announcement of Homeworld3 there might be new life in this.
People already pledged more than $500k in crowdfunding.
Great news regarding the RelicNews Tanis Shipyards (the central modding forums for Homeworld 2)!!
Previously we thought only the first page of most threads were backed-up. After doing much digging, I was able to find a backup of ~99% of all the pages and threads on archive dot org. I had to use the Lo-Fi forums rather than the Hi-Fi forums, and find a reliable backup date that was fully indexed. Details are on the wiki here.
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