Huge thanks to swixel (orloglausa) without him this wouldn’t have been possible.
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10,521 topics archived in total (The 12.1k stat on https://archive.hitmanforum.com/about is probably counting private topics that are not accessible unless signed in with an account that has access to those so I’m not worrying too much about missing anything that is public.
Top right of the page there should be a “Next” button. It’s not really in the best spot at the moment, I’m wanting to make it auto load posts when you scroll down but that’ll have to be done later.
Edit: I don’t know, maybe paged structure is better than continuously loading single page, but that button of Next/Previous should be more noticeable and maybe situated at the bottom of the page
I have updated the site so the Next / Previous links are more noticable and are now always display on the page no matter where you scroll. (You may have to clear your cache)
In the future I’m wanting to make it auto load posts as you scroll down but for now this will do.
Seeing that archive.hitmanforum.com is going offline and hitmanforumarchive.notex.app might suffer the same fate one day, I have decided to upload the archive to archive.org.
Sorry for bumping this old thread but I have an update regarding the archive. The archive was missing a lot of images that are stored on the image-archive.hitmanforum.com domain. I have downloaded all of the missing images (that I know about) increasing the archive’s size from around 24GB to 35GB. There are still a lot of really old images missing but I can’t do anything about those.
Amongst the new images included the banner image which I was surprised was missing from the original archive. It makes the archive look a lot nicer having it:
There is still no search feature and you still have to manually switch pages while viewing threads or the site’s index. I don’t really have the technical knowledge in coding and designing a search feature. I’ve been thinking maybe there is a way to setup my own Discourse instance set in read only mode and import all of the JSON data into that but I’m not sure how feasible that would be.
No problem, hopefully it helps you find what you are looking for. Going through the pages in a topic is still a chore unfortunately (maybe I can improve that in the future somehow).
Thanks for this - just found the featured contract thread for when I was featured way back in early March 2018. Got that nice little ego boost hearing hitwoman47 call it a “Fun contract!”