BattleReports.com to close down

Psyonic_Reaver

United States4044 Posts

January 07 2021 04:55 GMT

Owner Johnny Vegas announced the following

"Hey guys the site is going down pretty soon.

Someone who wants to make battlereports.com a Warhammer 40k site is taking over the domain from me, so this site will stop working at some point after the domain transfer completes (a week or so?).

This place was special for a long while, but sadly everything comes to an end.

Thanks."

If there are any particular memories or reports you want to save. Now is the time.

AttackZerg

United States7450 Posts

January 09 2021 01:31 GMT

I am too busy to respond appropriately, so I will fall short and say - Thank you to the owners, runners and contributors. I spent dozens of hours there, reading wonderfully written and fun reports of games that the world would never seen. No replays yet.

What a fucking terrible development.

How much storage is the database? I have a few terabytes locally and can garner more if time is needed.

Allan Glenn

3 Posts

January 09 2021 08:24 GMT

--- Nuked ---

Psyonic_Reaver

United States4044 Posts

January 09 2021 19:34 GMT

Battlereports.com is officially gone. Thanks for all the memories.

There is still a hard drive backup of the site in Johnny's possession as it was hosted on a local server he owned. I'll inquire about it and I'll PM you.

Psyonic_Reaver

United States4044 Posts

January 10 2021 04:23 GMT

JV was gracious enough to scrape the reports and compress them into an easy to read HTML format. All 6464 of them.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1s2SZL64cLRCbcUvyTIUfByRHf0Oue27V/view?usp=sharing

AttackZerg

United States7450 Posts

January 10 2021 17:48 GMT

Awesome and thank you JV.

For historical reasons, if anyone comes across this blog and needs access to a file, pm me. I am lazy but I will make sure to help you as soon as I can.

Happy 2021. Glad we got a chance to archive and preserve precious history this time.

I will be backing the files up on a raid tomorrow. After everything is safe, I will explore the data and see how hard it is to find and locate files.

DeepElemBlues

United States5064 Posts

January 10 2021 18:21 GMT

thank you JV!