Gagaverse to shut down in a few days, prepare accordingly

[Noahboy3 23]

3 hours ago, ChicaSkas said:

Believe me, I've gently pestered Sara into oblivion to teach me how to run the crawler, and unfortunately,  it is so complex I would need at least 10 years experience coding/studying computer science to even know my way around it... and this bothers me no end, as I have the motivation and desire to do it but very little practical hands-on knowledge on how to make it happen. 

The beauty of Sara's Gagaverse crawler is that it was so perfectly taylor-made to GagaDaily. And Sara's finished product made it look so damn easy. Gagaverse loads almost like a living copy of this entire site. Across the decades. 

This is a truly mindblowing feat of coding, love, and time.

 Anyone else I try to shop this idea to, like a data crawling company for example, would have to have mod permissions to see the entire site (sara has that, we wouldn't trust another,  likely ), would have to be trustworthy enough to not archive PII (sara is) , and on top of that , would charge us exorbitantly (Sara doesn't.)

The fact Gagaverse exists at all is a small miracle. 

As far as the future of archiving what exists now, I dont have an answer,  my coding/computer science knowledge is absolutely not enough in this instance to make my desires a reality. We will have to cross that bridge when we come to it. 

Perhaps a copy of the crawler can be made and I can have it studied to implement it in the future by another or eventually by myself but I need to hammer out those details with @Sara directly.

In the future we may be forced to look to the datahoarder subreddits or hire coders who can grasp the complexities. 

Sara, you have my everlasting thanks. It wont be easy going forward to achieve all that you have done. But you have inspired me beyond words to try

If Kirill made this a part of GGD, this would be less complexed. @Sara

He can keep the earlier archived version of GGD separate. That's not an issue. 

[Dima 1,426]

On 1/31/2023 at 12:25 AM, JazzGa said:

I'm gonna miss the Gagaverse Emojis archive the most! But they have been un-useable on GGD for a while now because now GGD only embeds images from https addresses  I guess now is the perfect time for a re-upload somewhere else!

I also might try to document anything good in the Outtakes thread. That was always a treasure trove back in the day, with little sprinkles and treats from @Dima now and then, even though the Outtakes thread is not active at all anymore 

Good times! :)

[Ultimecia 3,498]

Honestly the Pre-Chromatica, LG6 Speculation / Rumors thread on GGD was iconic.

I'd love an archive of that to be honest.

[PartySick 134,423]

On 1/30/2023 at 4:25 PM, JazzGa said:

now GGD only embeds images from https addresses

I meant to respond to this a while ago

When you post the link to the image, try literally typing the "s" after the "http", copy the link like that, then paste it again. It might embed!

I haven't tried it with those emotes but I have done it with other images and it works

[JazzGa 14,348]

2 hours ago, PartySick said:

I meant to respond to this a while ago

When you post the link to the image, try literally typing the "s" after the "http", copy the link like that, then paste it again. It might embed!

I haven't tried it with those emotes but I have done it with other images and it works

Omg PartySick you are too awesome! Thanks for remembering my comment and suggesting this hack

It doesn't seem to work with the Gagaverse emojis  But I think I might re-upload a mirror of the page to Github or something since I saved the webpage last week. I'm gonna message @Sara and make sure that is OK with her first  

 

[PartySick 134,423]

16 minutes ago, JazzGa said:

Omg PartySick you are too awesome! Thanks for remembering my comment and suggesting this hack

It doesn't seem to work with the Gagaverse emojis  But I think I might re-upload a mirror of the page to Github or something since I saved the webpage last week. I'm gonna message @Sara and make sure that is OK with her first  

 

Dang

Well, it was worth a shot

If you do, share please!

[Sara 1,128]

OMG, this is more than "okay", I'll love you forever if you can find a new host for those emojis, or for any gagaverse content really!! <3

Edited February 27, 2023 by Sara

[ChicaSkas 21,081]

The shutdown has been postponed until the end of February,  so, approximately 24 hours I think 

[ChicaSkas 21,081]

7 hours ago, Sara said:

OMG, this is more than "okay", I'll love you forever if you can find a new host for those emojis, or for any gagaverse content really!! <3

Is it ending tomorrow for sure sara?

Or do we have a little longer?

Edited February 27, 2023 by ChicaSkas

[ChicaSkas 21,081]

On 2/25/2023 at 12:15 PM, JazzGa said:

Omg PartySick you are too awesome! Thanks for remembering my comment and suggesting this hack

It doesn't seem to work with the Gagaverse emojis  But I think I might re-upload a mirror of the page to Github or something since I saved the webpage last week. I'm gonna message @Sara and make sure that is OK with her first  

 

Sara replied!

 

[ChicaSkas 21,081]

Bumping this because the official pull the plug date is now 12-31-2023. 

If you need anything from Gagaverse, now is the time.

[ChicaSkas 21,081]

GGV will be up a little while longer due to some last minute requests. 

You can access the site at:

gagaverse.com/archives