The users.f2s forums

Senior WebHelper Joined: 08 Jan 2002 Posts: 150

If somoen from 4WebHelp gave me a SQL dump of the users.f2s forums I could set up the Phorum Forum software on a paid host and allow people to not post but see the archives of the forums!

WebHelper Joined: 08 Jan 2002 Posts: 69 Location: Ireland

Yes there is a lot of wisdom portrayed on those forums, and it would be a shame to loose it.

But it was very F2S specific, and now that this site has gone international (host independant is a better word) do we really want it?

If you could cut most of the **** out of it, especially all the complaints about MySql too many connections error, and jibes between members, and comments on people's sexual orientation, it might be good. Script help was good.

I haven't checked the web archive in a while though, is it there?

Garth Farley

WebHelper Joined: 08 Jan 2002 Posts: 69 Location: Ireland

I still can't believe "carp" (switch the 'a' and 'r') is classified as a curse! Exclamation

I must be a foul mouthed fella. Embarassed

Garth Farley Twisted Evil

Team Member Joined: 06 Jan 2002 Posts: 2564

I think we specified in the robots.txt file that the phorum directory should not be indexed (Atomz has a page limit I think, so we had to reduce the number of pages on our site).

Team Member Joined: 06 Jan 2002 Posts: 2564

WebGet obviously doesn't obey the commands in the robots.txt file then!

Senior WebHelper Joined: 08 Jan 2002 Posts: 150

I still think we should preserve the forums or evem the entire site! Andrew, re-download www.users.f2s.com with EVERYTHING (inc forums) and I could give it a little home.

Senior WebHelper Joined: 08 Jan 2002 Posts: 150

Stop! Get someone from 4WebHelp to open the forums up but dis-allow posting so you can download it!

Senior WebHelper Joined: 08 Jan 2002 Posts: 150

Ignore the above. Please do NOT download the forums. Get someone from 4WebHelp to give me a SQL Dump of them.

Senior WebHelper Joined: 08 Jan 2002 Posts: 150

Could you please give me a copy of all of thhe files and i'll move it to a better server?

Ex Team Member Joined: 08 Jan 2002 Posts: 22 Location: USA

I have the SQL Dump of the forums from users.f2s. I'm still figuring out what I'll do with all this data, but when I do it will be hosted on 4webhelp.net.