WARNING: OLD FORUM PAGES WILL BE DELETED ON 4/21

[Tom O'Neil Joined: May 13th, 2011 Topics: 46 Posts: 19 View Predictions]

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If there are any of your old forum posts you wish to save, you have up until April 21 to do so, then we must trim the massive size of these ever-exploding forums before the next Oscars weekend because our massive size will continue to cause crashes and connection issues. We’re trying to address this issue in other ways behind the scenes, too, but I’m afraid old forums stuff must go.

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[Couverture Joined: Jun 16th, 2019 Topics: 1 Posts: 2202 View Predictions]

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How old may I ask?

A Negroni. Sbagliato. With Prosecco in it.

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[DaKardii Joined: Jan 12th, 2018 Topics: 34 Posts: 682 View Predictions]

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How do you save your posts?

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[Marcel Carneiro Joined: Dec 30th, 2020 Topics: 0 Posts: 105 View Predictions]

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There are more than 580 pages of threads

I guess the last 300 pages can go and no one will miss them 😂😂

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[FreemanGriffin Joined: Feb 19th, 2012 Topics: 72 Posts: 5440 View Predictions]

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There are definitely several threads in the daytime TV section I would want to save – the ones with the history of the Goldies awards in particular – but I have no idea how to go about it??? Is there an archive option???

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[puck05 Joined: Sep 21st, 2019 Topics: 13 Posts: 1569 View Predictions]

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I don’t know if it’s possible, but a search engine for threads would be so useful.

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[M: The Original Joined: Aug 5th, 2014 Topics: 8 Posts: 1024 View Predictions]

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I don’t know if I need to save them. If there’s a theme I wanna revisit I can always make a fresh thread.

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[gabspss Joined: Sep 10th, 2018 Topics: 148 Posts: 2490 View Predictions]

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FreemanGriffin wrote:

There are definitely several threads in the daytime TV section I would want to save – the ones with the history of the Goldies awards in particular – but I have no idea how to go about it??? Is there an archive option???

Enter the web.archive.org and then use the function “Save Page Now”

It's about the chaotic editing in Moulin Rouge!

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[Chitanda170 Joined: Apr 1st, 2020 Topics: 2 Posts: 1641 View Predictions]

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How do you save old posts? Can someone explain that please?

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[alex.g Joined: Sep 20th, 2017 Topics: 1 Posts: 498 View Predictions]

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Chitanda170 wrote:

How do you save old posts? Can someone explain that please?

Use web.archive.org a.k.a the Wayback machine. You can also use the Wayback Machine extension in your browser, then it’s just one click to save a page.

Here’s an example of using manual method, let’s say you want to save the current page one of the “2022 Grammy Award Nomination Predictions (Part 5)” thread:

2022 Grammy Award Nomination Predictions (Part 5)

1. Go the archive.org site: https://web.archive.org/save
2. Enter the URL of the page you want to save, in this case:

2022 Grammy Award Nomination Predictions (Part 5)

3. Select save and the page will start saving
4. When saved you should be able to find it again here – https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.goldderby.com/forum/music/2022-grammy-award-nomination-predictions-part-5/ – in fact you should probably do this first, before you waste time saving something that has already been saved.

Or use the browser extension.

Edit: This has worked on just about every page I’ve tried to save in the past, but perhaps there is something Gold Derby are doing that makes it difficult to save pages, because the page appears to save, but when I check later, the saved page was unreadable for me.

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[LLLhawks Joined: Dec 28th, 2018 Topics: 13 Posts: 902 View Predictions]

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Oh no. I like those threads that collect stats and stuff. But most of the others, yeah they can go.

I just love movies. And awards.

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[Atypical Joined: Dec 1st, 2011 Topics: 95 Posts: 6232 View Predictions]

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What is the cutoff date? What is the cutoff page? These deletions will decrease post counts, correct?

If the archiving methods don’t work, there’s always the old-fashioned method of copying and pasting content into Word files.

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[Awardsfan1990 Joined: Mar 28th, 2015 Topics: 115 Posts: 6492 View Predictions]

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Tom, can you PLEASE clarify the date for “old forums?” You’re being very vague about that, and it has all of us worried.

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[Vicki Leekx Joined: Aug 3rd, 2019 Topics: 3 Posts: 1972 View Predictions]

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Even if you achieve this I expect the site to crash anyway when winners are announced with the surprises in store

FYC 2023:

Zar Amir Ebrahimi - Shayda (Best Actress)
Helen Mirren - Golda (Best Actress)
Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt - Oppenheimer (Best Actor/Actress)

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[Tom O'Neil Joined: May 13th, 2011 Topics: 46 Posts: 19 View Predictions]

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All I know is that these forums carry so much weight that really slow down our servers or even shut them down at peak traffic times. That will mean hell for our Oscar posters, so we need to do some pruning. The cut-off is some time during April 21. Then all posts older than a year will have to be offed. We plan to keep a storage backup, of course, but it’s doubtful that we can hook it back up to the forums after Oscars. Moving forward, I’m working hard to get us a new servers set-up so we should never have this probably again.

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