I’m currently trying to look at a thread on the old dubstep forum but I get an error message when I open the page. I can see the contents of the thread when I search for it using the forum search tool but can’t open it. Any tech wizards have a suggestion?
what’s the link?
It’s not a very techy solution, but if you have the URL for the thread open up the bing browser and enter the specific URL into the search, when the results come back you can view the cached version which is the last stored copy saved by the web crawler.
I think you can do this with google as well.
https://web.archive.org/ is good for this if it’s been archived but might be a struggle for a message board.
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There’s a load of threads on this forum that I’d like to access but I just get the following error:
General Error
SQL ERROR [ mysqli ]
Unknown column ‘s.session_forum_id’ in ‘where clause’ [1054]
An SQL error occurred while fetching this page. Please contact the Board Administrator if this problem persists.
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Thanks but the threads don’t open (see my message above).
Yeah, the forum software has bitrotted. I don’t get very promising results from archive.org. The Internet continues to disappoint us.
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The search form can show entire posts, so that might be of some use. Not much to do about the SQL errors on the client side.
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These jerks at google apparently killed off cached results in December. That’s all I got unfortunately, didn’t find any snapshots for the page on any of the normal go-to lookback machines.
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Thanks everyone
Thanks, just figured this out. Very helpful.
You may have some luck with internet archive
Yet the mantra is to be careful of what you put on the net, as it’ll be there forever 
Probably only true for stuff you don’t want up, the other stuff will be gone when you most want it 
typical
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Right, the bad stuff is forever, the good stuff is gone tomorrow
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