Quicktopic shutting down

[petapan]

https://www.quicktopic.com/qt-shutdown.shtml

Newer users to the site might not be aware of this, but prior to the implementation of the private topics feature on this site, the standard platform for hosting private chats in games was the quicktopic website. Sadly like so many old message boards the site seems to be going away as the internet relentlessly progresses forward.

This is tragic, not only to see a venerable old website going away, but also because a big chunk of this website's history is kept in the QTs for old games, and that is going to be lost forever when quicktopic shuts down. A quick search of the site says quicktopics started seeing use in 2007 and came into vogue in 2008 and would have remained in use until early 2014 with the introduction of the private topics feature.

Times change and people move on, this site is a distant memory for most of its old users, but one of the values of this site is that the old messages remain and should you choose you can go back and see how people used to play this game over a decade ago. Letting a part of those games be lost to digital rot would be tragic. Without the QTs for old games you're only getting a partial picture, missing all the behind the scenes chatter that influenced those games. For the old users that do remain, those QTs can contain important memories.


We only have about two and a half weeks before the site shuts down for good on December 11. For the sake of preserving site history, would it be possible to get some sort of coordinated effort going to hunt down and archive as many QTs as possible from old games?

[petapan]

We've managed to track down all of the quick topics mentioned in public-facing areas of the site. I'm exporting the contents of each now.

nice

[petapan]

awesome work