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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.

[Conal Pierse]

I am reopening this topic, as it is different in purpose from other threads about the closure, and could not be discussed elsewhere without significantly impacting communication efforts.

So long as it remains on topic, this can remain open.

 

We are looking into what we can do to assist with archiving, though I have no further details at this time.