Original Live Forums Archive

[Hyperstrike]

7 hours ago, Ravenwulfe said:

Holy crap. Seeing this I was able to find a few of my old guides including the guides I wrote for the SoA and Imperious Strike force from yonks ago. Need to see if I can find the other guides I wrote because I know I wrote a few. Hehe memory lane. Went by Silverspar but changed that forum handle to Lounegrou at one point. Don't know why.

 

For the horrible curious my old SoA guide; https://cityofheroes.dev/liveforumarchive/topic.php?threadnumber=123905&page_no=1

 

and

 

Imperious SF guide: https://cityofheroes.dev/liveforumarchive/topic.php?threadnumber=123952#comment-671338

 

These guides are obviously horribly out of date now, but yea it was fun creating them back in the day.

The eternal refrain...

"Why'd you do that?"
"I dunno.  Seemed like a good idea at the time?"

[Ravenwulfe]

23 hours ago, Hyperstrike said:

The eternal refrain...

"Why'd you do that?"
"I dunno.  Seemed like a good idea at the time?"

Considering how many hours I put into leveling up each VEAT and then into the Imperious SF hehe, yea it did seem like a good idea at the time.

[SomeGuy]

I found the post where I linked my d*ck! It's in the same thread where people were posting pics of themselves.

 

Also, hi @Leandro!

[Ukase]

I know I can't be the only one who read something that could use a reply and got reminded there all dead threads. 😛 

 

[Hyperstrike]

9 minutes ago, Ukase said:

I know I can't be the only one who read something that could use a reply and got reminded there all dead threads. 😛 

 

[WanderingAries]

22 hours ago, Hyperstrike said:

 

And that meme is now triple level because he IS.

[Hyperstrike]

5 hours ago, WanderingAries said:

 

And that meme is now triple level because he IS.

I discovered someone using this on one of my hardware forums.

I was all

***PROUD PAPA!***

[Zep]

Found some old builds. Interesting to see how I do things now vs then.

 

Wish I could recover all my old costumes. Oh well.

[Hyperstrike]

4 hours ago, Zep said:

Found some old builds. Interesting to see how I do things now vs then.

 

Wish I could recover all my old costumes. Oh well.

You'd have to tweak the costumes anyhoo.

A couple pieces flipped in the listings here and there.

[Michiyo]

On 9/25/2022 at 2:59 PM, BlackSpectre said:

Hey PK, do not despair overly much. There are some problems with the SQLlite database that are hard to overcome and the version you've been working on is still sorely needed. Mainly, the SQLlite version lacks nearly all of the photos linked from third parties like PhotoBucket, which are the major sources for images posted at the old forums. It's kind of a bummer because most of the time players posted code (binds, pop menus, mods, etc.) they just took a photo of the code and posted the link. This means the SQLlite version does not have any of this extremely important information. It's just gone. Consider these 2 "duplicate" pages from the old forum:

 

SQLlite: https://cityofheroes.dev/liveforumarchive/topic.php?threadnumber=277110

 

WayBackMachine: https://web.archive.org/web/20120906214313/http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=277110

 

If you look closely, the SQLlite version doesn't even have all of the text, let alone the necessary images. And from my own browsing of both versions, missing information is not an uncommon thing with the SQLlite version.

 

However your files, PK, contain nearly all the images and the complete text. There is still a need for your old forum data and expertise.

 

What are some things you could do?

1) just continue on as you were. Finish your project and put it up on the web.

2) use the SQLlite version as a framework to parse your files to include the missing information and images into the SQLlite version (kind of combine yours and theirs). This might also be faster.  

 

I don't know, just throwing some things out there, PK. Perk up, we still need ya!

 

 

 

6 months later, I've fixed this.  It appears that the SQLite dump would break on posts containing html tags, which code blocks did.  I've re-dumped the original HTML directly into MySQL which may fix some other oddities from converting SQLite to MySQL.

[Mariel Martog]

Thank you for finding this. I found myself: https://forumarchive.cityofheroes.dev/profile/Mariel_Martog

[Captain Fabulous]

On 10/18/2022 at 3:30 PM, SomeGuy said:

I found the post where I linked my d*ck! It's in the same thread where people were posting pics of themselves.

 

Also, hi @Leandro!

I seem to vaguely remember a thread where guys posted thirst traps of themselves.

[BlackSpectre]

On 9/19/2022 at 12:31 AM, Michiyo said:

Hello all!

 

A Reddit user dropped a SQLite DB archive of the original live forums last week, and I've spent the last few days working on converting it, and making a browse-able (and soon I swear! Searchable) version of those forums.  https://forumarchive.cityofheroes.dev/ Basic stuff works right now, you can browse all threads in each forum, and view topics, no search, and user profiles are minimal at best.  Any images that were posted directly to the forums are gone, and many images that were put on 3rd party hosting sites (PhotoBucket is a big one...) are also gone.  The template is based off the forums on my site, as I didn't feel like trying to dig through the broken mess on the wayback machine.

 

Feedback is welcome.

 

Hey Michiyo, did you add a link to this on the front page of the Homecoming wiki? If not, it would be a great idea.