Thread 725345054

What went wrong?

social media

CjayC retired and SBAllen was a mentally ill liberal

The Gamespot buyout

it's a community of people who are bad at video games. kind of like /v/

>>725345054 (OP)
liberal mods

Got modded for saying China shouldn't make more viruses.

If the whole site went down how much information would be lost and how long would it take to rebuild?

>>725345426
Thousands of archaic NES/SNES games' info would be lost forever. The damage would be irreparable.

>>725345426
It would be like when tumblr died. People would be upset for a couple days then realize they can get the same content elsewhere.

>>725345426
It would be impossible. There would simply be games that could not be completed.

>>725345426
>how much information would be lost and how long to rebuild?
none/no time because discord exists

>>725345426
Pretty sure, like Wikipedia, archiving the text-based guides right now wouldn't take more than low single digit gigabytes of storage.

>>725345054 (OP)
Facebook, et. al came along

It was a site made for people too poor to buy strategy guides and internet speed faster than dial up.
The fact that it lasted past the 2010s is astonishing. It's pretty much ResetEra except everyone is 40+ years old and 400 pounds.

The ASCII art in guides was pretty soulful.

>>725345054 (OP)
modern ad-serving online guides split into multiple pages replaced it

>>725345426
I think as long as they're on the Internet Archive we should be good.

>>725348992
That's fallacious reasoning, what if internet archive closes? Then everything is lost for good

>>725346847
>>725348992
Most of the good information is contained in the message boards, not guides. To my knowledge no one has made an effort in archiving those.

>>725348815
Or it could be because it was convenient to find in-depth guides with a couple clicks, really mind-boggling I know.

>>725345426
Is there a way to backup the faqs without doing it one by one?

>>725349274
The Internet Archive should have one from the date when fandom bought them since everyone was expecting them to shut it down and convert it into one of their wikias.

>>725345114
SBAllen wasn't that bad. There's a new admin now who is 100x worse. Basically they hired a new generation of mods who are all from Discord and Resetera. They're clueless about Gamefaqs site culture and how the forums work.

Feeling old yet?

>>725349778
Nah, these dates registered as old for me way before now. When you remind me how MGSV is a 10 years old game, now THAT makes me feel old.

>>725345054 (OP)
discord

>>725349862
Then you're not as old as you think you are
...that makes me feel old

>>725345054 (OP)
Fandom

>>725345426
guides aside, gamefaqs is a massive database and even is the main source for boxarts per region

>>725345426
There is a complete archive of every text guide on the site out there.

>>725349778
it was 8 years ago, yeah feeling kind of tired

>>725349903
I am 36 years old.

>>725345054 (OP)
Steam guides stole part of its userbase

>>725345426
The info will always exist, but worst case scenario, you would have to play the games again.

>>725345054 (OP)
trannies

>>725350034
If anything you should know that information CAN be lost, having a personal backup is never too much

>>725349274
There was a torrent up of all the faqs a year or two ago, except some of the newer ones that had a lot of pictures. There's probably still archives floating around somewhere for those interested in grabbing it now,.

>>725345054 (OP)
They tried making a new format to replace simple text documents, and it sucked. And then wikis happened and were all around better than FAQs.

Anyone here from LUE?

>>725350354
HTML guides are way better because they can have images embedded and not rely on shitty ASCII art for maps.

>>725345132
tpbp
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What was the old quote? "I will not sell Gamefaqs to CNET" - CjayC

>>725350453
I still have a LUEable account. Haven't used it in a decade so who knows if it even still works.

>>725349593
>>725350298
>Gamespot TXT GameFAQs - Full Archive (3/23/20)
At only 2gb its really convenient, its missing the uploaded saves but just having it is a very big deal

>>725350530
>no maps or chart guides
>8000 guides missing
>no effort to scrape the boards
lol

Someday the boards will disappear, just like the IMDB boards, and all that information will be lost, like tears in rain.