Did Lightbend nuke the old discussion board?

[hertg]

I was researching some issues lately, and every time I find a potentially helpful link to a discussion about my problem, it is no longer accessible.

Did Lightbend take the entire Play Framework discussion board offline? I always found some valuable discussions in there when looking up issues and questions about play. 😒

[mkurz]

Yes it seems so. I found out myself a couple of days ago, I know it's a pity and unfortunately I did not scrap the content before they took it offline.
However, the Internet Archive preserved the contents, so at least you can scroll through the discussions:

• http://web.archive.org/web/20230201213210/https://discuss.lightbend.com/c/play/8

[hertg]

I hope they can put it back up, at least for a while so it can be scraped. Otherwise, maybe we could scrape from Internet Archive and set up a static page with the old discussions, indexable for search engines. I'd be willing to look into that.

[mkurz]

The question is if that is OK to do. You probably should ask them before scrapping that content...

[hertg]

It seems like it was taken offline by mistake: https://discuss.lightbend.com/t/play-framework-discussions/10530/4

Also, I looked at the Terms of Service of Lightbends discussion board, and all user submitted content is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License

[hertg]

I posted it to their Meta Discussions topic: https://discuss.lightbend.com/t/play-framework-discussions/10530

[mihe-inf]

I think they deleted it again, all my links to the discussion board are met with a 404