Discussion Forum > Site backup and fallback discord server
Clickable Discord link, since the old squarespace site doesn't like https: http://discord.gg/4vm8CtHY
March 8, 2025 at 13:34 |
Andreas Maurer

Wow -- remarkable achievement -- thanks, Andreas!
Very glad these discussions will be available indefinitely for our future selves.
Very glad these discussions will be available indefinitely for our future selves.
March 8, 2025 at 16:55 |
Mike Brown

Thanks Andreas!
March 8, 2025 at 20:18 |
Nico

Yeoman's work, Andreas! Thank you!
March 10, 2025 at 0:46 |
MotherWit

Marvellous, Andreas - thank you.
March 10, 2025 at 9:08 |
Chris Cooper

Thank you so much! I have been thinking I would come to the site one day and it would be gone (which would be a very dark day). You are truly the best.
March 12, 2025 at 15:00 |
Eric

Wow thank you Andreas, this is great!
March 15, 2025 at 3:37 |
Seraphim

Hi, can you renew link to the Discord?
March 17, 2025 at 17:24 |
Natalia

March 17, 2025 at 17:40 |
Christopher

Christopher:
Thank you, I didn't realize the discord invite link would expire.
Thank you, I didn't realize the discord invite link would expire.
March 17, 2025 at 18:50 |
Andreas Maurer

Thanks a lot!
March 17, 2025 at 21:25 |
Natalia

I created a new backup with the state of the site on March 16th. I currently can't update the file on archive.org for some reason. (It says "Item not available" when I click on "edit".)
I'll see if I can figure it out. It is rather inconvenient to upload and download that big archive file every time something changed anyway. I'll look into options to preserve the content in smaller self-contained chunks.
I'll see if I can figure it out. It is rather inconvenient to upload and download that big archive file every time something changed anyway. I'll look into options to preserve the content in smaller self-contained chunks.
March 18, 2025 at 5:55 |
Andreas Maurer

Can you post another Discord invite, maybe a permanent one? Or the name of the server so we can search for it? I'd like to join. I use the same name there as here: Cricket .
March 24, 2025 at 21:51 |
Cricket

This invite link should never expire:
https://discord.gg/RMdBvufuDR
https://discord.gg/RMdBvufuDR
March 25, 2025 at 12:18 |
Andreas Maurer

And again because I keep forgetting that https links stay unclickable here:
http://discord.gg/RMdBvufuDR
http://discord.gg/RMdBvufuDR
March 25, 2025 at 12:19 |
Andreas Maurer

Thank you for the archive & discord! I don't post often, but Mark's systems & the discussions around them have greatly influenced my thinking around time management & I would hate to lose this community
March 27, 2025 at 11:21 |
Jessica

Wow; thank you to those who've set this up and created the backup. I'm not a very active poster; but I also have really appreciated this group and would be sad to loose it. I've also joined the Discord.
April 24, 2025 at 15:51 |
LauraH

since there have been concerns regarding Mark's whereabouts and well-being and the future of this site, I have created a backup copy of the whole site and uploaded it to archive.org.
It can be found here: http://archive.org/details/markforster.squarespace.com
It's a zip archive that's 447 mb compressed and 2.2 gb uncompressed. After unpacking it, you can open any of the html files (index.html is the start page) and browse the site locally on your computer. All forum posts and articles are preserved.
The current state of the site backup is from March 7th, 2025. I will occasionally update the backup to include newer forum posts.
Also, as Nico suggested in the thread "Mark update? Site is slow?", I also created a Discord server that could serve as a fallback to meet up if this site ever goes offline. I'm not convinced Discord is a good match for the kind of discussions that take place here, but it's something.
Here is the invite link to the Discord server: https://discord.gg/4vm8CtHY
Hopefully both measures will not be needed for a long time, and if Mark or anyone else objects, I will take them both down again.
Regards,
Andreas