Web page tech help

Pulsar · 2024-04-21T18:22:36.840Z

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?

sentionaut62 · 2024-04-21T18:35:07.068Z

what’s the link?

shigginpit · 2024-04-21T18:35:28.939Z

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.

FilipNest · 2024-04-21T18:41:19.552Z

https://web.archive.org/ is good for this if it’s been archived but might be a struggle for a message board.

Pulsar · 2024-04-21T18:41:45.279Z

https://www.dubstepforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2710737&hilit=blawan&sid=d18624e9561e009f134630bc0917c01b#p2710737

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.

digidennis · 2024-04-21T18:44:24.684Z

https://www.dubstepforum.com/forum/search.php

Pulsar · 2024-04-21T18:45:28.671Z

Thanks but the threads don’t open (see my message above).

plragde · 2024-04-21T18:46:54.103Z

Yeah, the forum software has bitrotted. I don’t get very promising results from archive.org. The Internet continues to disappoint us.

digidennis · 2024-04-21T18:52:43.229Z

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.

shigginpit · 2024-04-21T18:53:25.084Z

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.

Pulsar · 2024-04-21T18:55:01.100Z

Thanks everyone

Pulsar · 2024-04-21T18:59:10.668Z

Thanks, just figured this out. Very helpful.

sentionaut62 · 2024-04-21T19:32:44.383Z

You may have some luck with internet archive

https://web.archive.org/web/20210101024600/https://www.dubstepforum.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=23&sid=667351d30198a6a888a1582864e1b05c

DavidL · 2024-04-22T18:37:23.139Z

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

plragde · 2024-04-22T18:39:49.548Z

Right, the bad stuff is forever, the good stuff is gone tomorrow