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.

  • @selfMA
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    21 year ago

    oh yeah I think that’s just zstandard! it’s fairly easy to decompress if you’ve got access to a Linux machine or similar, where it’s just unzstd if you’ve got the zstd package for your distro installed

    any chance they’ve got the script they used available? we could use it to grab everything from this year and complete the archive

    • @blakestaceyOPMA
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      31 year ago

      I don’t think the script is available (and it may be nonfunctional now, going by the terse notes at the above-linked wiki page).