The future of AI and SA: Posting historic on the fury road

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Elmnt80: Dec 30, 2012

AN UPDATE:

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So, as you may have noticed from the announcement, Lowtax has agreed to hand over SA to Jeffery of YOSPOS. While this is excellent news, we're going to wait until the ink is dry and the transfer complete before popping the champagne cork. While we did have other contingincy plans being made, this was the most reasonable of the options that we could have hoped for and planned for.

We will be figuring out a bunch of stuff in the coming days, but in the meantime I want to especially thank Toplitzin, Cat Interceptor, Meltie, Motronic, Fermented Tinal and any other AI goons that assisted in getting people on slack, gave me advice, offers of help and assistance with a number of other things. You are all amazing and I'm happy our home will remain here.

As I'm guessing most of you are aware, credible allegations have been made against lowtax of him beating women. Plural.

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3928980

I feel I can take a pretty firm stand in saying that this behavior is not tolerable and demands action. The mod and admin team is united in their disgust at his actions and are working to resolve this in a manner that best preserves the community that has been built and evolved over the last 20 years. While we are not sure what that is going to look like at the moment, I will be doing my best to keep you informed of developments as they happen.

I agreed to mod AI because I genuinely love this community and its posters. Ya'll have made me laugh and gave me a place to escape to on some really lovely days. I intend to do my best to make sure AI endures as part of the greater SA community which is without a doubt linked to what has helped make it such a special place.

As such, we've opened the AI slack up as a safety net to organize people to whatever alternative is decided on in case this thing crashes down like it was supported by harbor freight jack stands. Yes, we have a slack instead of a discord. It already existed and had a decent portion of active users in it, thus it got used. Post in this thread asking for an invite and one of the slack admins will get to it as soon as possible.

Thank you all for being amazing and DO A FUCKIN BURNOUT ALREADY.

PS: DON'T BEAT YOUR loving SIGNIFICANT OTHER. DON'T BEAT PEOPLE IN GENERAL. JESUS poo poo DICKING CHRIST HOW IS THIS A DIFFICULT CONCEPT.

EDIT: Also, there are a bunch of people wanting to throw money at problems and help fix things. One of the best ways is by throwing money at RAINN or your local women's shelter. They do good work and deserve your support

EDIT 2: Also, I feel I should mention the modmin team has regularly been in contact with logan and she is safe.

EDIT 2 Part 2: Many of you have project threads on this forum and would like to save them. This should help.

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Fumblemouse wrote on Jun 25, 2020 11:59:
Sebmojo asked me to post this:

A while ago, some goon wrote a thread scraper for SA.

I forked the code and fixed the error messages, then did it again when chrome started hating on http connections or something. It's now the single thing I have available on github, because it would be rude not to let the orginal author know that somebody still loves his dead gay code:

https://github.com/Fumblemouse/SA-Archiving-Tool

To use:

Hit the big green Clone button and download it as a zip file.

Extract the zip file somewhere on your local hard drive.

In Chrome, go Settings -> More Tools -> Extensions and flick the Developer Mode switch on the top right.

There should now be an option to Load Unpacked on the left. Ignoring the untold comedy potential for that phrase, click the option and find the folder you extracted the zip to - by default, SA-Archiving-Tool-master. Select that folder and click the Open button.

All going well you should now have a hard-to-see SA icon on the chrome extension bar. If you visit a SA thread with a thread ID, eg https://forums.somethingawful.com/s...hreadid=3903748 the icon should now be clickable with a single option...Archive.

Click that link, and your local PC will think for a while, depending on your local tubespeed, then display a single page with the entire thread on it. CTRL+S or Rightclick Save As and save it whereever you want. WebPage, Complete will save images also.

Because nothing in life is easy, the saved page's HTML CSS tags refers to something set up by the chrome extension, so it will look a bit crappy in another browser or if you remove the extension. This can be fixed by changing the CSS reference in the Saved As HTML file to the files in the /archive folder from the extracted zipfile - or you could copy the /archive css files into the HTML file's folder and just have the tags as direct links to files (no folder references)

Go crazy!

Elmnt80 fucked around with this message at 02:41 on Jun 26, 2020

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 08:15

Elmnt80: Dec 30, 2012

CORRECTION, POST REQUESTS FOR SLACK INVITES HERE :frogsiren:

Keep discussion to the chat thread or somewhere else. I want this thread kept to invites only so we can make sure as many AI posters as possible get an invite. If you do not have PMs, leave an email and I will edit it out as people are invited.

# ¿ Jun 25, 2020 02:45

Elmnt80: Dec 30, 2012

MustardFacial posted:

Can I also have a slack invite pls?

Pm me an email to send it to. Everyone else up to here invited and emails edited out.

# ¿ Jun 25, 2020 21:27

Elmnt80: Dec 30, 2012

Hedonism Bot posted:

Invite this lurker.

I need an email.

# ¿ Jun 25, 2020 21:30

Elmnt80: Dec 30, 2012

So uh. Hang on for an announcement. Stuff is happening.

# ¿ Jun 26, 2020 01:24

Elmnt80: Dec 30, 2012

So, as you may have noticed from the announcement, Lowtax has agreed to hand over SA to Jeffery of YOSPOS. While this is excellent news, we're going to wait until the ink is dry and the transfer complete before popping the champagne cork. While we did have other contingincy plans being made, this was the most reasonable of the options that we could have hoped for and planned for.

We will be figuring out a bunch of stuff in the coming days, but in the meantime I want to especially thank Toplitzin, Cat Interceptor, Meltie, Motronic, Fermented Tinal and any other AI goons that assisted in getting people on slack, gave me advice, offers of help and assistance with a number of other things. You are all amazing and I'm happy our home will remain here.

# ¿ Jun 26, 2020 02:39