tech.kinja.com and product.kinja.com also now 404. I guess they just nuked everything *.kinja.com.

Went for a little drive this afternoon. Better now?

I'm making slow progress. This is my first attempt at doing something like this and I'm learning as I go. A real search is still a longs ways off, but I've come up with a new way to organize things rather than the flat feed so that it will hopefully be a little easier to find things you want in there. I decided to break things up into months and years. So far I have 2017 uploaded as a test case. The links at the top take you to each month and the posts are displayed in a sortable table.

By default it sorts by the post ID. These were assigned when the post was started so scheduled posts and updates/reposts can end up with lower numbers than other things that were posted before them. Clicking the columns titles will sort if you want to see what had the most likes or you want to group by author, look for a specific date or whatever. These are big tables - there were on average 3700 posts per month - so they might take a second to sort. The sort is a script I grabbed off of the web and not perfect either. It puts ABC before abc for instance. But it is still useful - look I tracked down the very first of Urambo Tauro's My Favorite of JRiTS posts of the week post!

And here we can start to see what I still need to sort out. Embeds don't work yet and show an error. There is no formatting of the text in the posts. Comments don't show who replied to who so they can appear out-of-order. I also only pulled the first 100 comments for each post (technical reasons make it more work to do more - it is possible and we might get to it before the blog is completely deleted but only a few posts hit more than 100 comments so it is a low priority for me).
I plan to fix this stuff but it will take some time.

Here is where to check it out: http://jimisaherb.com/uploader/tablebeta_2017_1.html

Warning: All images arer currently still hosted on Kinja! I have no idea if they will be deleted soon. If you are using this archive to find and save your old posts that you didn't get a chance to before G/O 404'd then us I recommend using the Save Page WE plug-in for Chrome that embeds full images into the files that it saves.

Going all the way back to 2017! I'm using the data that I've been pulling out of Kinja for the last 36 hours since the big 404 and trying to write a script to format it into something resembling a post. It is just starting to. Comments have a long way to go still. First I need to get the errors sorted out then I need attack organizing them by who was being replied to which is going to take a lot more work.

Right now images are still being pulled from Kinja - this isn't a full archive and it will start to bomb out if Kinja starts deleting our content off of the server.

Hopefully we can use this to resurrect some posts for those folks that didn't have time to save their content before the shutdown (and wanted to).

Update: Starting to get the bugs worked out and planning to host it here: jimisaherb.com

Some old outdoor sling chairs with torn fabric to the dump.

A wheelbarrow and some soil I bought at the local hardware store.

My mountain bike.

A patio swing some friends gave us because they weren’t using it.

A bunch of old railroad ties that we pulled out of the yard that will be going to the dump later this week.

Despite its primary purpose being to drive down trails very fast, the Raptor has so far also been very useful for everyday truck things.

I made another update to jimisaherb.com - there are a little over 400,000 posts there now encompassing the full time span of Kinja 1.0 Opposite Lock. @Jb-boin and Nanttene got something like 470,000 in their count. I didn't count reposts or cross-posts. I don't know if that was the difference or if there was an error in how I parsed the feeds. I also only grabbed 100 replies from each post because the way Kinja works it is a fair amount more code to grab the replies past #100. In any case, Kinja has shut down the feeds so this is what I have now. I think we got most of it.

Right now all of the images are still being hosted by Kinja. I have no idea if/when they will get deleted. My thinking based on what I have seen is that they probably won't delete the images any time soon (the images aren't associated with the poster or Oppo so they'd need a script to crawl through all of Oppo and pick out the images). But I can't guarantee it. So if you want a copy of anything you find here please archive it now. I'm planning to see if I can make reduced-size/quality image archive but my initial attempts are running slowly and still taking up a lot of disk space so it may or may not happen. I might give up or the images might get deleted.

I don't really know what's next for this archive. Work has gotten pretty busy. (Here is a scary thought for those of you in the US (including myself) - I am managing $5+ million of your tax dollars this year.) So I don't know how much more time I'll have to play with this before (if ever?) the images go poof. I would like to fix some of the broken embeds and formatting, detect links to other posts and make them link to the archive rather than dead end at Kinja, and maybe bring back a more Kinja-style feed view. But we'll see. Maybe over Christmas. The host is paid for 2 years so I hope to keep it online through then at minimum even if it just lives in this state. Anyway - hope at least some of you can have some fun with this.

New formatting improvements are live along with what should be everything posted 2016-2018, about 150,000 posts or so. You'll see a few odds/ends in other years, probably because they got reposted at some point in the 2016-2018 span so they got swept up in the feed but my archive just tracks the final edit date.

jimisaherb.com

Reminder - Images are still hosted by Kinja - if you see something you want to save with the images use a plugin like Save Page WE to grab it because the images might die at any point. Or they might be here forever. It's Kinja. Who knows.

Have fun playing around kids!

I'm out for the night. Decided to go camping last minute with my kids. I'll play around some more tomorrow afternoon and let y'all know if more posts get added.

Found a new place to walk the dogs.

(Edit) OK so I'm actually getting something going now. It isn't perfect - basically none of the embeds are going but it is becoming something resembling a usable archive. Just one big page with 100 posts that were pulled out of 2016 with up to 10 comments for (pre)beta testing: http://jimisaherb.com

Images are still coming from kinja.com. That means the avatars are whatever your avatars are now and the images in the posts and comments are also coming from the herbship. I don't know how long they will be there. Maybe we'll be able to get a full backup in time or maybe they will never take them down who knows.

Original Post:
I'm going to try to somehow host archived Oppo content there. All I have so far is this post:

http://jimisaherb.com/1772445560.html

Right now the images are still being hosted on kinja.com. How much longer they are live who knows. I don't know if we'll be able to archive it all in time. Right now I'm still trying to pull out the raw text of the post and replies.

I also need to figure out how to do an index of some sort. I'm a web coding novice and Oppo amassed something like 500,000 posts over the years so we will need something more than just a single page list. Or what the heck maybe we can just list every post ever on a single page and see if we crash our browsers. Wouldn't be any worse than some of the Kinja glitches over the years.

I've been working on getting the posts formatted more like they were on Kinja. It's not perfect, but I think it is working OK. At least on a PC. On mobile everything is pretty tiny. My script is churning through 150,000 posts at the moment that I hope to upload in a little but but I might give up and go to sleep. I put a few test pages up to play with:

jimisaherb.com/2013/1/testa.html
jimisaherb.com/2013/1/testb.html
jimisaherb.com/2013/1/testc.html
jimisaherb.com/2013/1/testd.html

Remember the images are all still coming from Kinja.com! We don't know when they might turn off the lights on them and so far I don't know if we have a coherent plan to save them. I plan to start something this weekend but how far it goes really depends on how much space they take up when I start downloading them

What's New

• The post author block is cleaned up and looks a lot more like the FP than it did before. I've moved the stars and comment count up to the top on the right side since I uploaded these tests, but I didn't pull any new test files since the batch script is running now.
• Comment count added to the top of the page links right to the comments section
• YouTube embeds now work.
• Headings work somewhat.
• Picture captions work somewhat.
• Comments that aren't replies to the top post link to the comment they reply to when you click on them.

What's still Missing (And may or may not ever be fixed at this point)

• Only 100 comments were captured from the original post - if more than 100 they just show like there are 100.
• Embeds besides YouTube don't work.
• Any special code (mainly links) in captions don't work.
• Pretty much all special formatting is hit or miss. Line breaks basically don't work. Some headings work some don't. Bold and italic without a heading are just plain text right now.
• Comments are in chronological order. So comments that reply to other comments aren't right under the one they reply to. I'd love to fix this but it will be tricky. In the meantime if you get lost you can click the reply to name and the page should scroll to that comment. If there is no link the comment is replying to the original post. It isn't perfect but it is better than my first attempt that just laid everything out with no indication of what was a reply to what.
• There is no search or filter functionality. I'd love to make the tags active and add the ability to search by author but that is way down the road at this point.

I'll post another update here when that next batch of posts is live.

@essextee take this with a mountain of salt, because I'm one of those people who doesn't have any problem with visibility in the current-gen Camaro, but... My Raptor is about the same height/width as a standard F-350 (though shorter). On the road you get used to it by finding cues that help you place it. I got used to it pretty quickly and it doesn't bother me at all driving on the road, even on city streets. Climbing in/out and parking is another issue... mine is new enough to have a backup camera that also stays on in D below 5 MPH so getting it into spaces is easy enough. But if there is a car next to me there is rarely enough room to open the door more than halfway which makes getting in pretty tricky. Climbing in, 12 MPG, and $400/tire are the reasons I keep the Forester as a DD. The truck is actually pretty nice to putter around town in.

@longtime-lurker yes truck things!

Some old outdoor sling chairs with torn fabric to the dump.

A wheelbarrow and some soil I bought at the local hardware store.

My mountain bike.

A patio swing some friends gave us because they weren’t using it.

A bunch of old railroad ties that we pulled out of the yard that will be going to the dump later this week.

Despite its primary purpose being to drive down trails very fast, the Raptor has so far also been very useful for everyday truck things.

@way2blu currently 0 of my 3 cars are in my 2 car garage. Weekend plan is to get enough junk in there posted on the local FB yard sale page to make room to get one back in.

@rallydarkstrike I suspect they either rusted beyond help or moved down here. The mountain states are full of old SUVs that you rarely see in the rest of the country anymore - lots of 1st gen 4Runners here, XTerras everywhere, old Land Cruisers and Lexus LXs... I think people here actually go hunt them down nationwide and bring them back.

@rusty-vandura sidewall you say?

@glemon Around here it’s TJs and 2nd generation Outbacks and Imprezas. Everything else from that 98-2005 era is pretty much gone save for the odd Camry and Accord but those Jeeps and Subarus are everywhere and I see multiple in my morning commute. Also a decent amount of 4Runners from that era.

I have a coworker that dailies a 7th gen (92-99) LeSabre and it’s the only one I’ve seen in years - pretty sure the rest went to the junkyard.

@nowhere there does seem to be a push industry-wide for EVs to have ridiculous “futuristic” interiors. Hopefully it comes back down to earth and the interiors are basically the same as gas cars... about the only ones doing that now is Audi/Porsche but those are out of my price range electric or not!

Looks a lot better in the flesh than in photos I think. This red color is also very nice but didn’t turn out great in this photo under an overcast sky. The proportions are good and it looks very athletic. That being said, I think I like the Model Y better. Maybe it’s because they are everywhere and have had time to grow on me, but I prefer the less fussy look, and, even though the dimensions are about the same, in person the Mach-E seems a little bit more compact and less practical.

@i86hotdogs Whooosh I read this on my phone and thought you said that they lapped a TRX. Figured it was for laughs. Yeah SRT10 that makes a lot more sense.