Looking at the OP, yes. There’s a public reddit link.
Please do! The archive is for everyone
Thank you thank you thank you.
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My dude, you are incredible. Thank you!
If this is possible you would achieve true perfection, but nonetheless this is immensely helpful so thank you for making it.
Thankyou so much
Great work! Glad to see it come together properly! Support well spent 
Thank you everyone for the immense support, I really appreciate it!
Special thank you to Kegan and Baheeg for their generous donations, it really helps with keeping the servers up!
I’ve gotten a few requests for people to remove posts they made in the past in fear that it is embarrassing, exposes personal information, or is regretful. I am stuck, especially on certain reasoning, over whether to accept these requests or not. The archive is not only something for people to explore but represents a preservation of history, I’m stuck between the historical integrity of the archive and a few people’s comforts.
I would like to clarify that it is difficult for me to and I have no desire to edit the raw archive files shared here, and that if I decide to remove posts at all it will only be on the publicly accessible website. This will not stop people who use the raw files and host their own websites.
I would appreciate people’s thoughts on the topic because I’m unsure how to approach it.
Do not remove them! These are funny classics, and they don’t harm us on the real Roblox site! And if you still look at Roblox when you’re older, you’ll wanna see how cringy you were because of how funny and simple it was! Blast from the past > deleting now, because you might get embarrassed doesn’t mean you should remove the posts.
I really hope you don’t remove them
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I’d say it sounds good. Would say that considering the fact that people already likely downloaded the raw files, removing the info in there wouldn’t work too well anyhow.
Raw snapshots will be deleted 24 hours from the time of this post. If you want to work with the raw archive files easily copy them as soon as possible. The raw files will remain in .tar files on the compiled disk, however untarring the files is time consuming.
Perhaps in the future. There are actually groups of very complete forum archives on archive.org done by a different team (Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine), but they are completely unprocessed and include data for every single page (including replies and nonexistent posts), not to mention difficult to access. My archive is a bit more practical and includes only existing threads with replies. The raw files for my archive will still exist but are inaccessible to the public and once I am able to make the SQL dump available I will keep it up for longer.
I’ve been notified about an issue regarding the post count number for users. If you changed your username it may be displayed lower than it really is even though all your posts are actually archived.
The reason is because when displaying old posts Roblox will show the post count of that specific username, so your post count for that username would have stopped as soon as you changed your username. Even though your post count carries to your next username, the old one does not include the new username’s posts.
The import did not account for this so oftentimes it copied the post count from an old username instead of the newest one. I am looking into fixing this soon along with fixing the error with pages not displaying over 1000 pages (turns out there are posts over 18000 pages long).
Now I’m curious which one has the most. I’m assuming one of those forum game threads? I remember one which got huge and pretty much never really stopped getting bumped up to my recent threads for the time I had my first username.
Most if not all of the posts over 1000 pages are botted posts where they were only able to get so long because they were in deleted subforums where mods couldn’t see the spam.
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Aww, that’s a shame. It would’ve been amazing to see such a vast thread of legitimate posts. Guess there’s gotta be something interesting in a similar regard, if I start digging deep enough.
Yeah. Also unfortunately some posts with very high page counts were not saved correctly, so even the one with the most pages that I have may not be the actual post with the most pages (but it could be, the failures were random and not based on the number of pages).
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Posts over 1000 pages should display correctly now (some posts may take up to 24 hours to update). The longest thread (that I have) is 8242472 with 18527 pages and 463167. This thread alone constitutes .2% of the entire Roblox forum. There have been suggestions that the longest thread is around 60 thousand pages, but if this is true not all the pages were successfully archived.
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