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The End of Shrinemaiden As We Know It
HTFCirno2000:
Well. For years, I've always been told that digital storage media can hold the information of several dozen libraries. Always taken that fact for granted, but now it really hits home.
That shrinemaiden.csv is on this flash drive, in front of this Alice fumo. The concentrated text of the entire past 11 years completely fits on something smaller than a fumo with QUITE A LOT of room to spare. 11 years of ups, downs, forum games, fanfiction, banter between 2009-2020.
It's mind blowing to say the least.
ふねん1:
I'm afraid I'm not familiar with .csv files, is the one that was posted supposed to be basically every post from this site backed up (minus certain exceptions, as mentioned), or is it much more limited than that? I also don't really know how to use it myself, as Excel isn't opening it right lol. I might sound selfish by saying I'm primarily interested in my own post history, but I have a personal project I'd want to legitimately use that for, so I'm curious if I'd have to take other measures to preserve it beyond that .csv file.
niektory:
Tom has already put up a mirror of the public part of the forum at archive.lunarcast.net/shrinemaiden.org.
--- Quote from: ふねん1 on February 19, 2020, 05:25:58 AM ---I'm afraid I'm not familiar with .csv files, is the one that was posted supposed to be basically every post from this site backed up (minus certain exceptions, as mentioned), or is it much more limited than that? I also don't really know how to use it myself, as Excel isn't opening it right lol. I might sound selfish by saying I'm primarily interested in my own post history, but I have a personal project I'd want to legitimately use that for, so I'm curious if I'd have to take other measures to preserve it beyond that .csv file.
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The .csv file posted contains the text content of (I assume) every post, its title, thread ID, name of the author, date of posting, and subforum it was in. It's not easy to use as is because of its huge size.
If you tell me exactly what you need I can probably help you.
ふねん1:
Well I can't really describe "exact" things I'd want, it's more having the post history to observe my general thought progression through certain periods of my Touhou career. I might be able to get what I want written down sooner rather than later, who knows. Don't worry about extracting anything right now, though thanks for the offer.
But on that note, I imagine we wouldn't be able to log in to Tom's archived version once the original goes down? In terms of my post history, the stuff I'd want to look up for reference is spread across many forum threads, so going to my post history from my profile would be the best way for me to do that on my own.
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--- Quote from: niektory on February 19, 2020, 06:49:44 AM ---Tom has already put up a mirror of the public part of the forum at archive.lunarcast.net/shrinemaiden.org.The .csv file posted contains the text content of (I assume) every post, its title, thread ID, name of the author, date of posting, and subforum it was in. It's not easy to use as is because of its huge size.
If you tell me exactly what you need I can probably help you.
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Unfortunately this one still doesn't seem to work properly.
I'm probably going to prepare a small half-functional archive myself, but it's not going to be much more than a curio.