2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumIf GD:P is important to you, start downloading and saving it now before it closes
I find GD: Primaries fascinating, so I will be 'caching' it for historical purposes
Granted, DU isn't a hotbed of Memory Hole use like Free Republic- but GDP *will* be going
away in a few weeks. So if any of you want to keep it permanently, you need to get
a few terabytes worth of external drives (or a BD/DVD burner and a spindle of blank discs)
and get busy- I've got a couple of drives I can fill...
Atman
(31,464 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)"I'd rather stick needles in my eyes"
friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)But YMMV, of course.
pampango
(24,692 posts)I won't be sorry to see GD-P go but for 6 months every 4 years it gives a few of intra-party bitterness that is not as apparent the other 3 1/2 years.
friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)thesquanderer
(11,990 posts)And my posts will disappear, too?
friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)But I just dont care enough, personally, at this point.
friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)Now, I've got to figure out a means of long term storage and ways to combat 'bit rot'
I'll probably use three different methods, simultaneously:
1) Archive-grade DVD-R DL discs (Verbatim Azo)
2) Leave them on the hard drives
3) A bunch of thumb drives, they're cheap bought in bulk
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)demmiblue
(36,865 posts)Exilednight
(9,359 posts)friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)... a) the Wayback Machine scraped it before it was taken down, or b) someone saves
it locally
Exilednight
(9,359 posts)sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)I'll leave the history aspects to someone else. I'll celebrate its demise.
SFnomad
(3,473 posts)Eric J in MN
(35,619 posts)..or every post made at GDP since January 2015?
friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)demmiblue
(36,865 posts)Response to friendly_iconoclast (Original post)
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