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On the chance that CP goes the way of the Dodo[^] in the coming days or weeks there is a fairly good chance that it will happen without warning. Poof! Spooky dust!
When / if this happens many of us will also simply "disappear". For me this is it. There is no "other" site where I participate or even communicate. If CP goes away so does FGS1963.
To all of you - it's been a pleasure. You're mostly a smart group. Your humour is right up my alley. I've learned a ton about tech, about different cultures and hell - about life. I'm sticking around to the bitter end but if that end happens abruptly - please accept my great thanks for having "known" you.
FYI - FGS1963 is actually a 2nd login made ~3 years ago when I decided to return after an extended absence. I killed my original login after ~18 years and 20k+ messages. I was much chattier back then. My original login is actually still quoted in one signature that I know of. Well, actually my late uncle is quoted by reference to me - but I'll take it. I was actually here back in the days of Nish, Paul Watson, Shog9, David Wulff, etc...
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Hopefully that doesn't happen, but it is not looking good right now. It is a site I have learned much from, and a mostly respectful site which is very refreshing.
P.S. Mike, your uncle had a great sense humor. (guessing, hope I'm right)
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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jeron1 wrote: P.S. Mike, your uncle had a great sense humor. (guessing, hope I'm right)
He passed a few years ago at the ripe old age of 89. He did it right. Calmly while sleeping - not screaming bloody murder like the other people in the car he was driving. 
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"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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The FaceBook page should remain...
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I tried to email Sean Ewington about the future of the website, and the mail was undeliverable. He's in my contacts, so the address was accurate.
This is unfortunate. Like a thieves in the night, everyone is suddenly gone.  
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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You have to call his name three times.
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... while holding the right hand behind the back and crossing the index finger and middle finger 
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But don't do that while looking into a mirror!
"A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants"
Chuckles the clown
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HtCW, being a witch, is impervious to those mirror tricks. :-p
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I've begun the (painful) work to save all of my CP articles to my local drive.
(Since I've seen no answer in Bugs & Sugs to OG's message)
I must say I am very happy to see that downloading the HTML automatically downloads the associated article images.
Who else has started this work? Anyone? Maybe better stop procrastinating. 
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It should be fun if everyone starts doing it. 
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I haven't done articles, but I've backed up all the code to BitBucket or GitHub years ago. Not that I'd use that code these days (I've learned more stuff) but still...
I'd say just use https://archive.org/ but it's offline. 
Jeremy Falcon
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Yeah, most of my code is at GitHub but I've found some that is not.
I've got just about all of the relevant articles I want backed up now.
The thing is, I honestly wrote articles & shared them so that later I could refer to them via CP links.
CP was supposed to be my backup. What now?! 
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Perhaps OneDrive or GoogleDrive could help?
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raddevus wrote: I honestly wrote articles & shared them so that later I could refer to them via CP links.
That's part of why I do too.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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Yeah but your code is worth sharing (with others).
Mine, I feel, is just worth keeping (for myself).
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Thanks. I figure if it's important enough I have it on github.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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Am also thinking of rep points. They'll all vanish into thin air.
More importantly, have bookmarked several articles. Now, going through all those bookmarks, and downloading what I feel are important, is also a time-consuming exercise.
modified 3hrs 10mins ago.
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Amarnath S wrote: thinking of rep points. They'll all vanish into thin air.
I was thinking about the same thing. It's kind of a bummer. 
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I've been saving (locally) articles for years. Rep points? That's just a game IMO.
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I don't plan to. I just have too many articles. Even thinking about backing them up freaks me out. 
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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honey the codewitch wrote: Even thinking about backing them up freaks me out
I know it's quite painful.
But most of my articles I wrote so I'd remember the content better and so I could refer back to them.
I've referred to my article on SQLLocalDb tool usage (Dev's User Guide To SqlLocalDb (Sql Express)[^]) numerous times over the years.
I definitely grabbed that one.
I also wrote 5 chapters of Electronics For Makers which exists here an nowhere else.
Backing them up isn't too bad, if you,
1. go to search & search for your author name (that'll give you a list of your articles in reverse chrono order (newest first)
2. open each one in a new tab
3. click "get html for article"
4. save as
Not too bad.
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But there's the code and everything too. It's not all on github, although i think most is
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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