Now that the software is running with (at least for me) a low level of jank, it seems worth considering what we do with the years of accumulated sneer-strata over at the old place. Just speaking for myself, I think it would be nice if we had a static-site backup of the whole shindig. Unfortunately, since I’m a physicist by trade, anything I do with webstuff tends to involve starting from scratch with compass, straightedge and wget. There’s got to be a better method of archiving.
The other, not-mutually-exclusive option I can think of is to manually rerun “SneerClub classics”, the posts that one way or another helped define what sneering is all about.
N.B. Some of the test posts made today involved writing more on the serious-discussion side and have accordingly been marked NSFW.
this is actually a big relief. I’m still monitoring in the background to see if anything’s silently broken but other than lemmy really wanting access to a mail server, everything seems good on this end too
that’s not a bad way to do it. one thing that’d be cool is if we could archive sneers in a form that could be cited, which seemed like a pretty common ask back on reddit. some options for that are:
for accessibility, I imagine having a sneerclub archive here could be a good thing too. that might be fairly easy to do; we’d need to set up a dedicated community and account for it so main sneerclub doesn’t get flooded, but then we’d just have an existing crosspost bot run and grab everything in sneerclub and post it here
this may become much harder once reddit’s API closes, which gives me some anxiety. it might make sense to speedrun an archival script before that happens
RationalWiki runs on MediaWiki, which is kind of awful for discussion threads.
I will try to have more thoughts about this later (and do a bit more research into pre-existing scraping tools and such).
https://github.com/toonvandeputte/reddit_archive this might be adaptable into something that archives a subreddit instead of a single user’s posts. there may be a slight complication if we’re dealing with more than 1000 posts though. but since we’ve got an archive already that has everything up to december, we really only need this year’s posts
gawd, definitely not suitable to dump on RW