Preserving all 10,000+ HMF posts

The link for the archive is: https://hitmanforumarchive.notex.app

Huge thanks to swixel (orloglausa) without him this wouldn’t have been possible.

Information:
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.

Archive.org link: https://archive.org/details/hitmanforumarchive

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Wow man. If you’re able to acomplish it, good on you. :+1:

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Incredible work thank you :+1:

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This is very cool. I take it not all posts are archived yet? The old QuickMod thread is, but the QuickEdit thread isn’t.

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Huh weird. I guess the tool I am using isn’t perfect.

Should have all the posts/topics now. Site has had a massive upgrade.

https://hitmanforumarchive.notex.app/t/quickedit-a-mod-editor-for-hitman-2/43372/0

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No.
Just looked into a couple and for example this one end up on 20th post out of 96

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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.

Yes, it’s there but barely noticeable indeed

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

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Don’t have access to those sadly ;(

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We would also not like that as not everyone had access to that place. :stuck_out_tongue:

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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.

Edit: Just made it dark themed also

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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.

You can download it here: https://archive.org/details/hitmanforumarchive

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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.

I have also updated the archive on archive.org with all the new images which you can download here: https://archive.org/details/hitmanforumarchive (Once the file has finished processing)

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Probably the last update for this archive.
https://hitmanforumarchive.notex.app/ now has a very basic search function for finding topics.
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It is very basic and it has a pretty barebones appearance but it functions which is what counts.

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Thank you man I can now hopefully find a better quality of some screenshots I saved from the old forum back in 2017!

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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).

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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!” :sunglasses:

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