Posted by ostacke 10 hours ago
There was a point a few years back where someone did a site revamp with modern CSS and all that horrible jazz in clear attempts to monetize this incredible resource.
Happy to hear they reverted
I'm riding my qualifying 300k tomorrow!
Good luck tomorrow!
And the web design!
I want to save this for offline use, but I think recursive wget is a bit poor manners, is there established way one should approach it, get it from archive somehow?
No doubt it's already in many archive sites though, you could just fetch from them instead of the original?
Gotta hit the search I feel :)
I don't think that's being a dick for old-web sites that still exist today. Most of the information is text, the photos tend to be small, it's all generally static (ie, light-weight to serve), and the implicit intent is for people to use it.
But it's pretty slow-moving, so getting it from archive.org would probably suffice if being zero-impact is the goal.
(Or, you know: Just email the dude that runs it like it's 1998 again, say hi, and ask. In this particular instance, it's still being maintained.)