Wartower.de is going to shut down this month

Krschkr · February 7, 2018 at 6:28 PM

Wartower, the last surviving german GW fansite (besides guildwiki.de) is going to shut down this month. If you want to save some of its content you should do so asap. E.g. there's a thread with more than 100 working teambuilds.

http://www.wartower.de/forum/showthread.php?t=1188800

R.I.P. Wartower!

MaxBorken · February 7, 2018 at 7:14 PM Official Post

Can we import some of it here?

Like we did with guru?

Shi Reya · February 7, 2018 at 7:17 PM

Last post in the thread is, if the admin is interested in archivating stuff. I hope so, we have a really beautiful chestrun thread there

(Its german, but there are some good maps inside for the interested: http://www.wartower.de/forum/showthre…FCber+chestruns)

cosyfiep · February 7, 2018 at 8:38 PM Official Post

NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

They had tons of stuff, like images ....and they were usually the first to find Nic (back when we didnt know where he was going). It is a sad day indeed to see them go.

MaxBorken · February 8, 2018 at 12:27 PM Official Post

Do we know any of the admins or server monkeys? Can we get in contact with them?

Can we archive it?

Can we host it?

Shi Reya · February 11, 2018 at 5:11 PM

Seems the admin is not really up for archiving. Some guys are trying to get his mind changed

Iaerah · February 12, 2018 at 11:05 AM Official Post

I'm not against archiving, but in this case we'll need the approval of the admin first and we're not going to archive every Guild Wars site either.

If there's a call for it and the admin gives his OK, we'll host it.

Lexx · February 12, 2018 at 1:44 PM

I'm not sure a full archival would be good either, possibly only selective posts/threads with invaluable information or research.

Such endeavour could be called on the members to each scavenge and see if something would be worth saving. Not an archival in itself, just saving the information.

ishalldefend · February 13, 2018 at 4:07 PM

If you search wartower.de on google, there's an option to "translate this page:"

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=e…de/&prev=search

cosyfiep · February 13, 2018 at 7:40 PM Official Post

perhaps we can bribe them with cookies or chocolate! (and this would probably be the only other gw forum I would archive as I have used it in the past)

TDR2000 · February 13, 2018 at 10:52 PM

hey!

Any idea how would I be able to archive the posts I would like to keep? Copying in Word would be a darn tedious process. Is there anyway, i could save it for offline use?

Thanks

Lexx · February 13, 2018 at 10:59 PM

Without access to the database, then the only way is to copy what you see by hand.

blacki · February 28, 2018 at 9:26 AM

I don´t know if any of you know but there are news.

This and this post tells us about the new plan. I try to translate as good as possible the most important things:

We decided to work together with GW2Community. They will be host, but we will be the operator.

Wartower will move to a new server and everybody can access a light version of it.

Timetable:

15.02. - 16.02. A complete backup of wartower has been created and downloaded
16.02. - 18.02. We deleted over 1 mio posts in the pc-games, internal section and the archive. We also deleted about 35.000 users which have been inactive (banned users, users with 0 posts, inactive users with 0 posts, users which were active last time on their registration date, User which have been inactive since 4000 days or more and with 0 posts.
19.02. - 20.02. "Maschinengeist" takes over the Domain and "about us" has been adapted/changed.und wir passen das Impressum an.
21.02. Registration and the trading board have been closed.
22.02. The trading board will be deleted and final archives will be created and downloaded again. This new version will appear on the new server. Posts from this date (22.02.) won´t appear in the new version. If necessary we will send a Mail to all active users.

The domain still isn´t accessible but the board is (for me).

I hope everybody understood my (bad) translation.

EDIT: They finished moving the data to the new server and are still working on the integration of the data in the bulletin board (25.02.)

cosyfiep · February 28, 2018 at 9:48 AM Official Post

that is good news!

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