LFGSS and Microcosm shutting down 16th March 2025 (the day before the Online Safety Act is enforced)
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What are the chances of keeping a static backup?
I think I'd actually be in compliance with the law if no-one could comment.
So one option is to break the authentication, expire all current authentication... and then the whole site is read-only.
But this costs £400 per month at the lower end to operate... so I could only do that for a short while.
Also note: a static dump... of what exactly? You're also lifting authentication controls from a lot of content that was never intended to be public. We would need to also exclude a hell of a lot.
Velocio-
Basically anything that doesn't requite authentication. You could try pointing wget at the homepage now and crawling it, then pushing the outcome into github or similar.
Edit: I might actually do that at some point
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I don't have an immediate idea to the running costs issue. But do you need to lift authentication to disable new posts, comments and DMs? If it becomes a platform you need to login to read, but no writing is possible either way, then no user communication is possible. Would that keep you out of the firing line temporarily?
I was more erring towards making sure there's a hard copy of the database somewhere which could be revived if a solution came about though. Cryosleep. You can't talk to a cryosleep person.
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Just the public content which was mostly bike stuff and is now mostly kitchen renos...
Scrape it or something and stick it in static S3 website bucket type dealio.
Then find shit on Ofcom staffers computers and have the whole organisation shut down for hate crimes.
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But this costs £400 per month at the lower end to operate... so I could only do that for a short while.
I would donate a decent amount to a regular PayPal or Patreon or whatever to make this happen. A read only archive or something similar is better than nothing.
pascalo
Psy
hippy
lazysuperhero
What are the chances of keeping a static backup? Even if it is cryosleep of some kind; lest an alternative platform comes together in the longer term. I can move to other platforms, it's the historical record that I am personally saddest to lose.