Unc informs us that The Gun Blogs will be closing:
This site seems to be irrevocably broken. I can't fix it. I've tried. And, honestly, activity here isn't that high. So, I'll let it fade quietly into the night. Authors should save their content if they wish to keep it. Once the domain expires, it will be gone.Can't say that I blame him. Here are some numbers for ya:
- There are 507 registered users on The Gun Blogs.
- 175 of them have never come online even once.
- 245 of them haven't logged on for at least one year.
- All of 10 have been on in the past month.
The site doesn't have an export feature that I know of. I've been slowly copy & pasting my stuff to this blog over time. Guess I'd better finish it up.
To be safe, I'd recommend getting all your stuff before May of next year, although Unc thinks the domain will be active for a while longer.
No, no Hitchhikers Guide reference. Although, I do like fish.
1 comment:
It runs on Drupal, which uses a database backend. No export feature? No problem. Go to the cPanel (or whetever equivalent at the hosting company) and find the database management stuff that lets you do a database export. Export the database in "SQL" or "CSV" format. If where you wind up at from cPanel to do that is phpMyAdmin, choose to also gzip it, and the export file should trigger a "save as" dialog bog from your browser when it's created and sent by the other end.
I've never messed with Drupal, so I don't know what quirks might lurk in how it stores content, but I doubt it's anything can't be overcome. Once you have the database, a database monkey (someone like me) can produce dumps by author.
Well, that's one approach, anyways.
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