Hi all,
I am a refugee of these new boards as well, and was despondent when I heard the old ones were being retired. On a lark around 2010, I downloaded a copy of TMF and it’s been sitting on an external drive since then, collecting dust and gamma rays. The new coding tools which have become available recently made it feasible for me to build a system to help sort through all of that old stuff. I am also embedding all of it for semantic search (~18 mil posts from 1997 - 2010), but that’s going to be a process.
Anyway, I have no idea why I didn’t think of it before reading this just now, but I’m prioritizing Mungofitch’s posts for semantic search, so they’ll be available sooner than the rest. It’s very much a work in progress but it will eventually allow you to find and share anything anyone wrote here before 2011, with later dates supported as I can find them in the Wayback Machine. Hope you check it out! I posted about it here:
And the app is at https://whafa.com .