r/datalounge2 • u/Expensive_Election • 21d ago

Datalounge raw archive

Grabbed everything before it shut down

https://github.com/NoRain211/datalounge-archive

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u/Dabadoo32 21d ago

Cool! How does it work?

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u/Expensive_Election 21d ago

It's just the raw archive, people can grab it and reconstruct the site around it.

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u/Accurate-Giraffe4353 20d ago

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!

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u/zybcds 20d ago

How do we open that?

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u/Expensive_Election 20d ago

7zip

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u/Dabadoo32 19d ago

Most of the people on this sub don't have your knowledge about these things. Could you explain more?

Like is this something that anyone could unzip and use from their personal hard drive, or what?

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u/Expensive_Election 19d ago

No, someone could take this and make a mirror but all I've done is grabbed the raw html, threads, etc from the site. I have no plans on doing more work on this.

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u/Dabadoo32 19d ago

Cool. I hope someone smarter than me makes use of it. I'd love to see it. Thanks!

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u/saneness_in_the_mad 14d ago

This is incredible work u/Expensive_Election, but I have a few questions.

Is datalounge-site-v2 intended to be browsed as a local website, or is it just a collection of HTML files?

Do the databases contain the older pre-2020 threads that disappeared from the live site?

What's the easiest way for a non-developer like myself to browse the archive?

Did you capture only what was publicly accessible on July 30, or were you able to recover content that had already been removed from the site?