If GD:P is important to you, start downloading and saving it now before it closes

[friendly_iconoclast]

I find GD: Primaries fascinating, so I will be 'caching' it for historical purposes

Granted, DU isn't a hotbed of Memory Hole use like Free Republic- but GDP *will* be going
away in a few weeks. So if any of you want to keep it permanently, you need to get
a few terabytes worth of external drives (or a BD/DVD burner and a spindle of blank discs)
and get busy- I've got a couple of drives I can fill...

[Atman]

1. I can't wait for it to go away.

[Warren DeMontague]

2. What's that quote?

"I'd rather stick needles in my eyes"

[friendly_iconoclast]

3. Good, bad, or ugly, it's still history- *our* history...

[Warren DeMontague]

5. Only thing I'm filling a terabyte hard drive up with is lossless grateful dead soundboards

But YMMV, of course.

[pampango]

4. Most of us did not come to DU to bash other Democrats and call them names.

I won't be sorry to see GD-P go but for 6 months every 4 years it gives a few of intra-party bitterness that is not as apparent the other 3 1/2 years.

[friendly_iconoclast]

10. I take more of a "warts and all" view of history, myself

[thesquanderer]

6. You mean GDP pages I've bookmarked will no longer work?

And my posts will disappear, too?

[friendly_iconoclast]

9. Yep- same thing happened to Meta...

[Warren DeMontague]

11. Aye, now there is a loss.

[friendly_iconoclast]

14. Politics at *any* level is a mostly grubby business- especially intragroup politics...

[Warren DeMontague]

15. Hey I understand wanting to preserve the record, I really do-

But I just dont care enough, personally, at this point.

[friendly_iconoclast]

21. I'm cool with that, and thanks for for the feedback.

Now, I've got to figure out a means of long term storage and ways to combat 'bit rot'
I'll probably use three different methods, simultaneously:

1) Archive-grade DVD-R DL discs (Verbatim Azo)
2) Leave them on the hard drives
3) A bunch of thumb drives, they're cheap bought in bulk

[Warren DeMontague]

23. That's fairly similar to how I treat my lossless GD soundboards.

[demmiblue]

16. No, the name of the forum will just change. n/t

[Exilednight]

7. Google will have it cached away. you can find all the GD:P boards from the past.

[friendly_iconoclast]

8. Google only caches links, when GD:P gets pulled from DU servers it's *gone*, unless...

... a) the Wayback Machine scraped it before it was taken down, or b) someone saves
it locally

[Exilednight]

24. I can pull up all my old posts from the 2008 GD:P using Google.

[sharp_stick]

12. This cesspool can't go away soon enough

I'll leave the history aspects to someone else. I'll celebrate its demise.

[SFnomad]

13. I'll drink with you to that n/t

[Eric J in MN]

17. Do you mean that you're going to download your favorite posts

..or every post made at GDP since January 2015?

[friendly_iconoclast]

19. I'll try to get it all- it's obviously going to take a while...

[demmiblue]

18. The name of the forum will change, but past content will still be available. n/t

[friendly_iconoclast]

22. If you're right, I'll follow Warren DeM.'s lead and fill up the other drives with music...