One thing I should clarify, as I didn’t really show an example before, was the articles aren’t being lost to the void completely but being digitally preserved as part of the forum content. Here’ one I just did:
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I just did a quick copy/paste into the comments post we had already and it took about 3 minutes. We lose some fancy gallery things, which is a shame, but it’s better than nothing.
The trouble is there are about 150 articles to do that for, so it’ll take a bit of time or we need to ask for some elf volunteer help to do it before the articles site gets it in the neck . I think @Troll is going to take a look at organizing it, or if he isn’t then has probably just found out he’s now penciled in to organize it.
I was also hopeful that after a bout of frenzied copy/pasting then people would be more inspired to write their own Articles, or we’d have a super easy way for people to do that. It was a bit of a barrier ‘preparing to publish ’ something, so making that easier might lead to more people wanting to dip their toe.
Also, I was planning on doing a fancy new page for the Articles section, that would look like the old ‘blue boxes of content’, so in a way, the old site comes back to still haunt us forever…