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> So why can’t we put a read-only archive online currently?

> The Wiki, even in it’s read-only state, was presenting security risks, and it was deemed necessary to take it offline.

https://forums.unrealengine.com/unreal-engine/announcements-...

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Seems like a poor excuse. You can make a read-only version of a Wiki without running wiki software. Just mirror the HTML.

At the very least they could have made this open source

It would’ve been trivial to crawl the forum and dump the resulting WARC files into the Wayback machine to provide a permanent archive. This is just apathetic laziness on their part.

https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/grab-site

Pretty sure the wayback machine already has a full archive

I haven’t enumerated all of the Wayback captures for the forum yet, so I can’t speak to how recent and complete the archive of the forum is.

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