It's annoying when you get that firefighter instinct "this place is about to collapse" about a website and you're already so fucking busy.
I really don't have time to try to archive this site before it implodes, so I gotta try to ignore all the signs while hoping someone else archives it.
(note that I didn't mention which site I'm talking about: this is on purpose)
What do you use to archive it?
I have a mostly-text online manual for some old abandonware tech hosted at the whim of its corpowners that I'd really hate to lose. I've been meaning to figure out something to get it backed up but everything seems to be manually, one-page-at-a-time and it's rather expansive.
@jackemled @DrGravitas @foone umm https://webapps.stackexchange.com/a/115426. appears to be a simple two liner? Depending on number and rate limits, and some pauses or sleeps.
@falken @DrGravitas @foone It's only "simple" if you know anything about those commands. I don't know anything about find except that it's like grep but weird & I have no idea how to use curl. That also depends on knowledge of what a command line is, how to use it, & how a website works. It also seems limited to specific file types, I don't think putting in just * would be a good idea & it would be annoying to have to figure out what the ratelimit & cooldown period are. This isn't accessible to most people.
@falken @DrGravitas @foone I've seen that page before while searching this & couldn't figure that out, so I wrote an AutoHotKey script to help me manually go through an entire website without hurting myself.
@jackemled @DrGravitas @foone if I stopped to state all my assumptions every time I tried to help I'd be even less useful
@falken @DrGravitas @foone You assumed it was simple, accessible, & a useful answer. It doesn't even work for most people because most people don't have bash or curl or find. A simple solution is one that Grandma can use immediately, assuming her computer isn't as old as she is.
@jackemled @DrGravitas @foone grandma is archiving things to archive.org? Good for them!
@falken @DrGravitas @foone No, I mean assume everyone knows as much as a stereotypical grandmother about computer software. If you can't help a person in a way they'll understand you aren't helping, just confusing them & making it worse. This isn't just your problem, lots of experts do this & some everyone automatically knows enough to understand what you're talking about. I have done this too with things I know alot about.
@jackemled @DrGravitas @foone I would, if I thought that was the case for my audience. Given we're on Mastodon, safe to assume more savy than average. And certainly willing to look things up. Or you'd not be here.
FYI I give talks on UXD using persona's lol
@falken @DrGravitas @foone This is a comment section, not your audience🗿
I'm also on a Mastodon server, safe to assume I don't know anything about computers, despite the domain name.
@falken @DrGravitas @foone That only works one page at a time. You can use the "save outlinks" option, but you still need to go to every page to get the outlinks of those ones too.