nesdev.org

koitsu wrote:
Edit: Heh, shortly after the announcement, someone started massively downloading all of the content from numerous hosted sites here (nesdev, nesworld, JE in specific) using wget, which is absolutely the wrong thing to do (such utilities get stuck indefinitely on forums/boards). I just had to firewall them off. Some people...

Would it be possible to get some torrents going for each site?

I can't speak for other sites, but as for NESdev, be patient. I'll soon make zipfiles of HTML pages of the old forum, current forum, and wiki available when they're done. Is nesdev_weekly.zip up to date?

NESWORLD has already moved to another server and the nameservers for the domain are changed as well and the new changes are being spread around the world...

So no need to waste Parodius' bandwidth.

Does anyone have any plans for all content on nesdev (not the forum or wiki)?

tepples wrote:I can't speak for other sites, but as for NESdev, be patient. I'll soon make zipfiles of HTML pages of the old forum, current forum, and wiki available when they're done. Is nesdev_weekly.zip up to date?

Yup, it's generated every Sunday at 00:00 PT like usual. :-)

oRBIT2002 wrote:Does anyone have any plans for all content on nesdev (not the forum or wiki)?

I'm sure that will be moving with the rest of the site. It'll involve some work on Memblers' part, since right now (and since the beginning of time, hehe) the nesdev site (and bbs) have resided under a directory in his personal account.

koitsu wrote:

tepples wrote:Is nesdev_weekly.zip up to date?

Yup, it's generated every Sunday at 00:00 PT like usual.

Thanks. That means I have a complete copy of all information on the site, except for new phpBB posts from the past week, on my laptop. Come August, as the final days approach, I'm 99.44% confident that nothing of value will be lost.

Koitsu and Tepples,

Thank you for being diligent about preserving our history and all of the prior work that you've done to keep nesdev humming along. As a fellow Unix sys-admin, I very much appreciate the complexity of the task, both technically and ethically. You both have my appreciation.

ps- AM I leaving anyone out? Who else is/was an "admin" of sorts, keeping the riff-raff out, hacking the php code, etc..?

Memblers wrote:WhoaMan, I meant to call you the other night but was a little busy (I would now, but I'm at work). Your offer seems like the best one so far, I'll try to contact you soon so we can figure out the details.

So, any progress? I think it would be best to move the forum sooner rather than later so that we'll have plenty of time to make sure the new host runs reliably, etc.

clueless wrote:ps- AM I leaving anyone out? Who else is/was an "admin" of sorts, keeping the riff-raff out, hacking the php code, etc..?

Other folks you might have forgotten ( :-) ):

- Quietust, who did some UTF-8/Unicode hackery on the board (either phpBB or wwwThreads, can't remember which but I think the former), to make it Unicode-compliant rather than mess about with per-language encodings. Again, if I remember right, this is how/why the Chinese and Japanese forums here actually work.

- Banshaku, who helps out here quite a bit and is also one of the official maintainers of the Wiki. He does most of the Wiki administrative work too, including via shell.

I'm certain I'm forgetting someone, I just can't remember who. Argh.

Memblers?

Kasumi wrote:Memblers?

That guy never did anything to begin with! ;) ;)

I was not very active for the wiki recently because of my current schedule is hell so Koitsu helped me a lot for the maintenance. Thank you again.

I will need to find some time when the new server is official though. That is why I decided from the start that there should be more than one admin for the wiki "just in case" of the admin become less available. So it did pay off.

I'm the official maintainer and this is where my role ends: I still see the wiki as owned by the community, which mean anybody can brings ideas.

I have a couple of computers that I can donate and can work as servers,

they are pemptium 4 I believe but one of them has 500GB hard drive and the other one I don't remember.

Would this be something that interest you all?

I'll be looking for this... if it survives past the Parodius closing (I think it will... just that I need to make sure to check the URLs).

Until then... Sayonara, Parodius.