UPDATE: blob8108 set up a working mirror of the forums. See it here

The old forums are down again, but I have a complete archive of them stored on my big external hard drive. Does anybody want any topics recovered? If so, please provide as much of the following information as you can.
-Subject
-Forum
-Topic ID
-Author

This archive contains every single topic that was on the old forums before the release of Scratch 2.0. When responding to a request for a topic, I will both add the link to the list at the bottom of this topic and post a link to it on your profile page if you didn't disable comments.

Topics recovered so far
69113 ITopic: self-updating images and links in posts! by sparks
58790 ITopic: Welcome to your local block library! by YourLocalBlockLib (came from my v1 archive, so it will look different)
113737 Pokemon Land Version and Pokemon Sea Version Starter Trailer by maxdoss
104048 Go Everywhere Beta 0.2 by Pitusky12
43056 Modding Scratch VFAQ (very frequently asked Qs) by LS97
97571 The Bit Company (Members Needed!) by ftf841
43178 The Return Of M30W by bendad
106225 M30W New Official Topic by roijac
12465 How the 3d line import and render works. by AddZero
78546 What STATE do you live in? by imnotbob
64148 Go Everywhere Beta by comp500
All of the creepypasta threads I could find
113905 Escape the box 2- Information on the game many have requested. by brinjal
113943 Sprite Groups by Sausagefanclub

Is the whole archive available for download somewhere?

veggieman001 wrote:

Is the whole archive available for download somewhere?

Try this link. I believe it is the right on.

The files are stored in this format:
Scratch Forum Archive -> *TOPIC ID* -> page-*page number*.html

Currently they appear without any CSS (it is a verbatim copy of what was on the site), but that can be applied manually.

Also, high five being named Jacob!

I wish Block Library would get revived, but there is no reason to mod, as there is a create blocks thing now.

jvvg wrote:

veggieman001 wrote:

Is the whole archive available for download somewhere?

Try this link. I believe it is the right on.

The files are stored in this format:
Scratch Forum Archive -> *TOPIC ID* -> page-*page number*.html

Currently they appear without any CSS (it is a verbatim copy of what was on the site), but that can be applied manually.

Also, high five being named Jacob!

Awesome possum, and thanks! I'll give it a gander.

Also hi-five for Jacobness too!

I'd like this recovering plz:archive.scratch.mit.edu/forums/viewtopic.php?id=69113&p=1

How large is the whole file?

Firedrake969 wrote:

How large is the whole file?

Several gigabytes uncompressed, I think.

joletole wrote:

I wish Block Library would get revived, but there is no reason to mod, as there is a create blocks thing now.

I'll get that later today.

QuillzToxic wrote:

I'd like this recovering plz:archive.scratch.mit.edu/forums/viewtopic.php?id=69113&p=1

I'll get that later today.

Firedrake969 wrote:

How large is the whole file?

About 700 MB compressed and 3 GB uncompressed, I think.

Can I have the Pokemon Land and Sea Versions topic by maxdoss?

chocolatepenguin wrote:

Can I have the Pokemon Land and Sea Versions topic by maxdoss?

I'll look for it later today.

Unfortunately, I am having some disk problems right now. The archive is stored on my external hard drive, which is HFS+ (Mac OS Extended Journaled) formatted (my Windows computer was in for repairs while I was making the archive), and I can't find any software within my price range (i.e. free) that can read it. While my Linux installation can read it, I am currently having some issues with it.

If anybody knows of any free tools to read HFS drives on Windows, that would be nice.

Edit: I found one, HFSExplorer.

I have created a list of all of the topic subjects and IDs.
Check it out

I have recovered the following topics:
69113 ITopic: self-updating images and links in posts! by sparks
58790 ITopic: Welcome to your local block library! by YourLocalBlockLib (came from my v1 archive, so it will look different)
113737 Pokemon Land Version and Pokemon Sea Version Starter Trailer by maxdoss

Can I use this for a little Project

Btw any luck on the css file?

QuillzToxic wrote:

Btw any luck on the css file?

I have the files (and a script to add them on the v1 archive), but I'm still working on writing a script to add them to the v2 archive.

I can't read the text.
I need the actual text.

chocolatepenguin wrote:

I can't read the text.
I need the actual text.

If you download and open the HTML file given on the website (the download link is at the bottom of the page), you will be able to see the text. The page won't look perfect, but you should be able to read everything.

Thanks jvvg for this resource, I'm sure it will come in handy!