Is QuakeSrc.org ever coming back up?

[KillsTheWeak]

I think the biggest loss is loosing the Pyrdon Gate section ha

Anyways, i'll be posting on quakedev from now on, sense it dont look like there's any hope for qsrc, nothing wrong with quakedev anyways (cept not having a Qfusion section). Still a shame that theres no dumps of the forums laying around, i sifted threw archive and could only find post before the forums went php.

[Pat AfterMoon]

I think the biggest loss is loosing the Pyrdon Gate section ha

Lol ! I've got a lot of chance. I was in discussion with Ender for moving the coopordie forum hosted at quakesrc.org since september 2007. He has promise to sent me a database export of the sub-forum. But finally my last contact with him is an email dated 11/11/2007 where he stated that he does not have broadband at home at the moment, and will need to make the export while at work.

When he has changed his website host, I think he has payed one month of the new host and made a mistake about DNS configuration. During December, quakesrc.org has pointed alternatively on the old and the new host, sometime switching every one or two hours.

The forum has worked sometime on the new host during December, but only when DNS was pointed on the new host. I am the author of the post that has talked about IP address of the new host

Finally, without receiving the database export of my sub-forum I have decided to grab it from the web between Christmas and the end of the year. And the result is not so bad :
www.aftermoon.net/?page=2008-news#article-20080130

Unfortunately, I haven't grabbed the entire quakesrc.org website, sorry for the community

Maybe, like mentioned before, there is something to do with http://web.archive.org the last time I've checked there were more that 20.000 quakesrc.org pages archived.

And again, like mentioned before, we have www.quakedev.com/forums/

[KillsTheWeak]

Ya was gonna joke about your forum section too, but before qsrc went down there were actually posting there again.

I found the php discussions, the advanced search threw me off as it would only let me select up to 2004, so i went threw all the pages of the search and found em.


http://web.archive.org/web/*sr_7411nr_3 ... esrc.org/*

Page 248, 30 per page if link dont work.

Anything with viewforum in the link is usually a discussion, some dont work, think ill spend my day off tomorrow and go threw each page pulling as much usefull information as i can.


Here is a working index page of hell's kitchen all the links seem to actually go threw.

http://web.archive.org/web/200610130346 ... 12&start=0

[FrikaC]

I have a somewhat old backup of the wiki around here somewhere, I'll look into posting it sometime soon.

[Baker]

This isn't too bad of a back-up for the moment:

http://web.archive.org/web/200707121422 ... kesrc.org/

[KillsTheWeak]

Damn crawler aint working right on archive.org, it's only grabbing the frontpage of each.

Links for anyone else to try.
These are the only complete ones i could find

Hell's Kitchen

http://web.archive.org/web/200610130346 ... 12&start=0

General Programming

http://web.archive.org/web/200610130521 ... 17&start=0

Quake 3 Engine

http://web.archive.org/web/200610130439 ... 20&start=0

The rest of the sections can be reached but not as convienant.

What you do, is list at 30, than go to page 258.

The links arent all in order, this is how you figure out which section the link belongs to.

This chart shows which 4 number/letter combo at the end of each link belongs to except the complete ones listed above.

ca8d - Bleeding Eye Studios
dccb - Bleeding Eye Studios (2 for some reason, may be true for others)
37eb - Tomaz Quake
72F9 - MHQuake
c19b - Hexen 2 Engine
e36d - Mini Racer
ea38 - General Discussion
d5bc - Aftermoon
c997 - Quake 1 Engine
4107 - Quake 1 Engine
ac49 - Quake 2 Engine
52d7 - Quake 2 Engine (guess it was true )
9cf6 - Quake 2 Engine
5078 - Quake 2 DLL
33b2 - Slightly Interactive
ceeb - OpenGL Programming

Can't seem to find the Tutorials Forum section yet, which is what i was originally looking for, couple more hundred pages to sift threw

[Pat AfterMoon]

Ender is back

Sorry, QuakeSrc is Moving!

New News

ITS HORRIBLE! ALL IS LOST! DISPAIR... DISPAIR AND DISMAY! WE ARE DOOOOOOOOOOOMEDDDD

... Thats what I said when, in the middle of copying data to the new server, the old server suffered a fatal crash. I've also discovered my superior backup script broke sometime back in 2005, due to lack of space.

I am still hopeful of finding a slightly more recent copy of at least the forums database, as I've made several copies for development over the years... unfortunately I'm also moving house so all my computers are boxed up at the moment.

- Ender (Learning the importance of checking your backup logs, the hard way)

[KillsTheWeak]

Bought freakin time, my eyes are hurtin from looking threw the archive. Backup of 2005? I was hoping for atleast 2006, oh well

[Wudan]

Just start it allllllllllll over. I'd be glad to help. I'm just glad it's hopefully really truly coming back.

[revelator]

ditto tho i hope at least a portion of the stuff from the older site can be recovered...

good to see ender back

[motorsep]

What about CSQC for DP tutorials? Can those be found on the webarchive?

[leileilol]

quakesrc.org hardly had anything csqc related

[Jay Dolan]

If I can be perfectly honest, I'm really disappointed with the entire situation. Even if Ender finally restores some ancient, mostly useless backup of the forums from 2005, how long until this happens again? I wish he would pass the domain on to someone who actually has the funding and motivation to maintain it.

Echon, on the other hand, seems to take very good care of QuakeDev...

[leileilol]

BeyondUnreal's had it bad. They've lost all forum data back to May 2006 this January.

[KillsTheWeak]

Guess thats why newsgroups rules and php drools.