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[giftfish]

Due to the impending closure of both these forums and the old BSN, the BioWare player community is about to lose access to a wealth of information.

 

So far, preservation efforts seem to be focused on building a new forum community, which is fine. However, my personal, primary concern right now is the preservation of the following:

• Blogs -- Many old blogs contain a huge amount of information about game mechanics, character customization, and more.
• Projects -- There are at least 8340 projects (mods) hosted on BSN. Many of these were never moved to Nexusmods or ModDB and cannot be found anywhere else. Come October, they will cease to exist.
• Specific Forum Posts -- There are a slew of forum posts that act as "project pages", in addition to an abundance of information on game mechanics and modding.

Currently there's a thread on ME3Explorer OT section where we're discussing options as to what can be done. I encourage anyone interested in helping to drop in and participate in the discussion. I'm willing to set up a new forum section on the ThaneMOD forum, a Google Doc, a WordPress, coordinate with Nexusmods, or whatever we determine needs to be done to best preserve this content.

 

BioWare's DAO Toolset & Wiki

I'm going to link to my post in the other thread, b/c this is a major issue that the community needs an answer about. If BW is considering actually *removing* access to this content, it also needs to be preserved.

 

EDIT -- I'm assuming closure of the forums includes blogs and project hosting. If it doesn't, it would be very good for BW to communicate this to the community.

[CreeperLava]

I am running HTTrack to backup the forum.bioware.com website, FYI.

[PapaCharlie9]

I suggest contacting Fexelea. Also, see this thread:

https://forum.biowar...-collaboration/

[giftfish]

I suggest contacting Fexelea. Also, see this thread:

https://forum.biowar...-collaboration/

 

If BW is indeed closing Projects -- which we likely won't have a confirmation on until Monday -- downloads should be placed on a legitimate mod hosting site like Nexusmods. Many of the projects are already hosted there, but many are not. Nexus has also been very good when it comes to allowing uploading of content without original mod author permission under circumstances such as these.

 

If Fexlea has the desire, space, and resources to relocate and host all the blog entries related to game mechanics, character customization, modding, and whatnot, then that's great. I'd still rather see this content moved to something more public, but that it's preserved is my primary concern. Right now the biggest problem I see is that searching for blogs on BSN is glitched; no page numbers appear in the search results, so you are limited to accessing only the top 10 results for any search. There is literally no way to do a manual preservation of blogs due to this.

 

Mostly I wanted to move this information into it's own thread for visibility and discussion; it's getting drowned out in the 75+ pages of the main thread.

[mrjack]

Have you tried contacting Dark0ne directly at the Nexus. He just got done archiving another mod site (FileFront/Gamefront) that got closed down and it was massive compared to the number of BSN projects (100,000+ files). I don't know how he did it it from a technical viewpoint but at the very least he should be able to offer some advice and would almost certainly be pleased to do so.

[Fexelea]

I can host any data needed, and we have a dedicated blog that can be used for the articles. I also want to move the forum content as a lot of good information is here as forum posts

The site I run is a fan site but is well ranked and highly trafficked. We have proprietary software that can assist with many things, although mods is not something I've thought of before.

Please let me know how I can help

[Shades of Night]

This. I think it's very important to know whether or not things other than forum posts themselves will be removed as well. Because I'm not sure that an archive of the forum will also archive things like the projects, and it would be a huge shame to permanently lose these sorts of things.