While Bioware has cut off access to the old NWN2 forums (and NWN forums and BG forums) it is still possible to find at least some of the old information using Google's cache. Much of the content of the old NWN forums are still available for download using the NWN Omnibus by OldTimeRadio, but for NWN2 content the best hope is probably Google. Here is an example of how to find information using the cache.
Go to Google and search as you normally would. In this case say I want to find an Overland Map thread . I search for NWN2 Overland Map and find in the list of links "NWN2 Overland Map Supplemental Primer". Sounds perfect, but if I just click directly on it I will be redirected to the useless www.bioware.com page, so that is pointless. Instead click on the little magnifying class icon to the right of the link. This will open a Preview box which may or may nor be empty. In the left corner of the preview box will be the word "Cached". Click on "Cached" and the old webpage will be displayed based on the data in Google's cache. All is not lost.
Unfortunately this is not ideal. If the thread you are looking for has multiple pages for instance, you will not be able to use the Next link to easily switch to the next page. To find the next page you will have to return to Google and search for it. Not ideal but it beats nothing.
If anyone has any better way to find the old content please respond.
Regards
Using Google cache to find old forum content
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Kaldor Silverwand
, juin 15 2011 05:43
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Posté 15 juin 2011 - 05:46
painofdungeoneternal
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the cache will go away very rapidly. It is an after image. Perhaps looking at one of the internet archives will have it.
not perfect but it's got something --> example http://web.archive.o....html?forum=109
not perfect but it's got something --> example http://web.archive.o....html?forum=109
Modifié par painofdungeoneternal, 15 juin 2011 - 05:50 .
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Posté 15 juin 2011 - 06:06
Kaldor Silverwand
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painofdungeoneternal wrote...
the cache will go away very rapidly. It is an after image.
I'm checking with Google on that.
Perhaps looking at one of the internet archives will have it.
not perfect but it's got something --> example http://web.archive.o....html?forum=109
The links all seem to go to a page that just says that the Wayback Machine hasn't captured that page. Not sure how you would search for anything using this either. Does it support searching within the pages?
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Posté 15 juin 2011 - 09:11
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It will be gone in 3 months
http://www.searcheng...s/archive.shtml
The archive is about the only thing that will have such content eventually.
( just be glad we aren't focused on baldur's gate )
http://www.searcheng...s/archive.shtml
The archive is about the only thing that will have such content eventually.
( just be glad we aren't focused on baldur's gate )
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Posté 15 juin 2011 - 07:38
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Didn't they say that everything in the old forums is now archived and searchable? But, any links and favorite topics (My Topics) will no longer work.
Edit: LOL. Ok, I can no longer get to the NWN2 search page...
Edit: LOL. Ok, I can no longer get to the NWN2 search page...
Modifié par Banshe, 15 juin 2011 - 07:40 .
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Posté 18 juin 2011 - 03:52
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They are crooks! We buy the games and stay faithful to the games and what do they do to us? Tear a deeply seated community apart in support of great games??? I just don't understand!
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Posté 18 juin 2011 - 04:22
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BioWare has already explained that the un-announced shut-down of the Legacy forums was a necessary response to hackers breaching security there. They've sinced updated the community about their plans to bring the Legacy forums back in a secure way.
Many of us in the community (myself included) were upset and jumped to the conclusion that Bioware intentionally shut those forums down without warning because we suspected that they would do just that some day. It's not that we weren't justified in thinking that, but we should take BioWare's seriousness in responding to this to heart.
Many of us in the community (myself included) were upset and jumped to the conclusion that Bioware intentionally shut those forums down without warning because we suspected that they would do just that some day. It's not that we weren't justified in thinking that, but we should take BioWare's seriousness in responding to this to heart.
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Posté 18 juin 2011 - 04:49
Kaldor Silverwand
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MasterChanger wrote...
BioWare has already explained that the un-announced shut-down of the Legacy forums was a necessary response to hackers breaching security there. They've sinced updated the community about their plans to bring the Legacy forums back in a secure way.
Many of us in the community (myself included) were upset and jumped to the conclusion that Bioware intentionally shut those forums down without warning because we suspected that they would do just that some day. It's not that we weren't justified in thinking that, but we should take BioWare's seriousness in responding to this to heart.
Perhaps I'm cynical, but I think we've seen the last of the old NWN2 forums. I will be very surprised if they reappear. This event may have been required by security, but I doubt they will spend the money to recover something in a secure way that they didn't really want to keep going in the first place.
I will be very glad if I am mistaken.
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