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s_maurice · started 2019-05-09 11:54 · updated 2019-05-09 12:14

Hi everybody,

don't know if this is a legitimate question, but I hope you can help. I'd like to read a thread which seems to be archived (or even deleted?) now, but I still got the URL saved to read later, which now seems to be too late.
Is there any way I can get to read the thread and all replies?

Thanks
Maurice

Comments (8)

s_maurice · reply
2019-05-09 12:33 · 2019-05-09

I do recall that, that's what interests me about it - just couldn't get the outrage when I first read this, so I wanted to get back to it just looking at the arguments of those accusing you of suppression and censorship for my analysis. I can surely understand you want to put it to rest, nevertheless, if anything more subtle could be an option (like reopening at 3 at night for ten minutes for me to save it as a PDF and then vanish into Nirvana or anything like that, exporting an XML from the DB or anything else) would be appropriate for you I'd be very happy, but also don't wanna ask for too much here!
Since we have a little chat here, just wanted to let you know that I didn't want to go on your nerves and hassle with my emails to you, I'm just really interested in all this and if you ever should feel like getting directly in touch, I'd be really grateful.

2019-05-10 06:03 · 2019-05-10

A moderator with access to deleted topics could just copy the contents in a file and send it via email, no need to reopen the topic?

s_maurice · reply
2019-05-10 11:20 · 2019-05-10

Hi guys, thanks, if you could reopen silently, that would be great, just let me know when exactly this would be! It's probably gonna take some time but since my work is based on qualitative analysis every utterance might be relevant ;)

2019-05-10 12:58 · 2019-05-10

I just checked the topic in question, since I can still access it. There are 7668 comments. Several comments are hidden because they were downvoted by multiple users. Besides, only the three latest replies to a comment are shown, and there are comments with more than 20 replies. Expanding hidden comments and replies to access the entire content would be very time consuming. Besides, there seems to be a bug with the endless scrolling. On three separate attempts I scrolled for about four minutes and at some point, when waiting for the server to deliver the next chunk, the page reloaded back to its initial state, showing only the top. There was no way to load all the way to the bottom, I always ended up hitting this premature reload. Maybe there's a way to access the raw post data stored in the database and export it as plain text? One thing, as long as this is discussed in an open board, it's not really going to be silent.

s_maurice · reply
2019-05-10 19:57 · 2019-05-10

Highly appreciate your effort guys! Sitting there opening countless replies wouldn't bother me too much tbh, jumping back to the initial state is a thing though, @andremichelle you got an idea how I could deal with that? Accessing raw data from the db would surely be an option, but you might need a specific script for that and I guess my request is probably kind of unique so that would probably mean extra work for the devs and I wouldn't dare to ask for that of course unless something similar would already be there, but it's up to André if that's possible in any way.
Got your point with the silent opening which isn't actually silent - totally agree, I guess the point was to not going back and opening for discussion again but making it visible for a very very short time without further announcement, so basically only those reading this thread here would know why it would pop up again for some minutes and then disappear into nowhereland.

s_maurice · reply
2019-05-15 06:02 · 2019-05-15

Hi guys, just a quick follow up to see if there would be some kind of solution to my inquiry? If anything else fails and you would reopen the thread for a short time I would open replies manually as Jordi mentioned and just take as much as I can to at least have something to work with if that would be ok for you.
Really appreciate your help guys!

s_maurice · reply
2019-05-15 18:26 · 2019-05-15

Got that, fine for me!
In the past four months I tried sending several emails, but I'm not sure if they got through to you. Basically, I was hoping to get the possibility to have a talk for my project, which would be very interesting and highly appreciated! I know that you have lots of stuff to do, still trying my best to get through ;) I elaborated that in my emails already, just let me if you received any emails, otherwise I'd surely write again!