Deletion of TMF posts today?

[Clitheroekid]

Am I right in thinking that today is the last day it'll be possible to access TMF posts? I seem to recall that the boards closed on 17 November, and that they would then be accessible on a `read only' basis for three months, which would expire today.

If so, does anyone know of a quick method of copying a selection of posts from TMF?

[mc2fool]

Save them into the Internet Archive by....

Use Chrome for your browser.
Go to https://blog.archive.org/2017/01/25/see ... something/ and scroll down to "2. Chrome extension"
Install the Wayback Machine Chrome extension.

then

Navigate to a post on TMF you want saved.
Click the Wayback icon in the toolbar and select Save Page Now.
Note (copy'n'paste somewhere) the URL.
Repeat.

Or, for any browser, go to https://blog.archive.org/2017/01/25/see ... something/ and scroll down to "3. Wikipedia JavaScript Bookmarklet" and follow instructions there.

[Clitheroekid]

Many thanks for that, much appreciated.

However, it's fairly laborious saving one at a time. Is there any way of saving more than one? For example if you go to one of the TMF pages with the last x number of posts - e.g. http://my.fool.co.uk/profile/mc2fool/activity.aspx - would it be possible to save all the posts on that page at once?

[PinkDalek]

Am I right in thinking that today is the last day it'll be possible to access TMF posts? I seem to recall that the boards closed on 17 November, and that they would then be accessible on a `read only' basis for three months, which would expire today.

mc2fool has given you a couple of options and you may well find a number of the posts you are interested in have already been archived at the waybackmachine. To find them, once archived, is harder unless you bookmark them or something similar!

In case you don't have the time to check/save them all today (fearing that today is the day), the wording in the closure notice http://www.fool.co.uk/help/community/cl ... on-boards/ was "We currently plan to keep the boards available as a read-only archive until at least mid-February 2017." and TMFTarantula's board post stated "After they close to new posts, the Boards will remain accessible as a 'read-only' archive for at least 3 months.".

Incidentally, the "Format for Printing" functions still works http://boards.fool.co.uk/MessagePrint.aspx?mid=13456218

[PinkDalek]

However, it's fairly laborious saving one at a time. Is there any way of saving more than one? For example if you go to one of the TMF pages with the last x number of posts - e.g. http://my.fool.co.uk/profile/mc2fool/activity.aspx - would it be possible to save all the posts on that page at once?

I don't think so, in the way you describe, but you can save Whole Threads.

[modellingman]

Am I right in thinking that today is the last day it'll be possible to access TMF posts? I seem to recall that the boards closed on 17 November, and that they would then be accessible on a `read only' basis for three months, which would expire today.

Today is not necessarily the last day.

As another poster has noted, the relevant page on TMF (still) says The Fool UK Discussion Boards are now closed to new posts. We currently plan to keep the boards available as a read-only archive until at least mid-February 2017.. In addition, the boards are also still identified on the site map and I would expect that they would first disappear from that before being finally switched off.

[deucetoace]

Having the Plastic Tortoise gone seems to me to be vandalism.