Archival of "bitco.in" (including forums) blocked - WTF!?

[da2ce7]

I was trying to archive some posts on the other "Bitcoin Forum" and quickly found out that is explicitly an disallowed action.

https://bitco.in/robots.txt

Code:

User-agent: ia_archiver
Disallow: /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /designertest/
Disallow: /forum/attachments/
Disallow: /forum/forums/*/?direction
Disallow: /forum/forums/*/?order
Disallow: /forum/help/
Disallow: /forum/login/
Disallow: /forum/lost-password/
Disallow: /forum/members/
Disallow: /forum/misc/
Disallow: /forum/online/
Disallow: /forum/posts/
Disallow: /forum/register/
Disallow: /forum/search/

What is more interesting is that the owners of the "bitco.in forum" have taken the time to explicitly block the archival site: https://archive.is/

For a site that claims:

Welcome to Bitcoin Forum.
No censorship. No BS.

[unamis76]

I think the solution here is simply not using knock-off sites...

[da2ce7]

I think the solution here is simply not using knock-off sites...

Agreed, however there is lots of content on that site that should be kept for future evidence. - It would be great if somebody did a dump of the entire forum.

[unamis76]

I think the solution here is simply not using knock-off sites...

Agreed, however there is lots of content on that site that should be kept for future evidence. - It would be great if somebody did a dump of the entire forum.

Just got on the link and saw that's the alternative forum created a while ago... I thought it was one of those websites mirroring this forum. That being said my last post doesn't make that much sense and I wonder why they're blocking archival of their pages... It would be a nice question to ask, if someone has an account there. I think the only resort is maybe using another archival site, Internet Wayback Machine or storing the pages locally.

[da2ce7]

For example:

archival of:

https://bitco.in/forum/threads/gold-collapsing-bitcoin-up.16/

would be quite nice, it is full of all sorts of juicy posts.

[SebastianJu]

I think the solution here is simply not using knock-off sites...

Agreed, however there is lots of content on that site that should be kept for future evidence. - It would be great if somebody did a dump of the entire forum.

Well that is the problem. The content. It's a well known technique of blackhat internet marketers to steal the content of a website or copy whole websites. Just to get visitors and earn from them.

[pedrog]

For example:

archival of:

https://bitco.in/forum/threads/gold-collapsing-bitcoin-up.16/

would be quite nice, it is full of all sorts of juicy posts.

https://archive.is/5XCLT

[da2ce7]

For example:

archival of:

https://bitco.in/forum/threads/gold-collapsing-bitcoin-up.16/

would be quite nice, it is full of all sorts of juicy posts.

https://archive.is/5XCLT

The last archive is from 13 Sep 2015 02:57:12 UTC

If you try archiving now you get:



https://archive.is/JdGDe

[pedrog]

For example:

archival of:

https://bitco.in/forum/threads/gold-collapsing-bitcoin-up.16/

would be quite nice, it is full of all sorts of juicy posts.

https://archive.is/5XCLT

The last archive is from 13 Sep 2015 02:57:12 UTC

If you try archiving now you get:



https://archive.is/JdGDe

Well, then you should create a topic in that forum exposing the problem, there's nothing we can do here...

[beastmodeBiscuitGravy]

I think the solution here is simply not using knock-off sites...

Agreed, however there is lots of content on that site that should be kept for future evidence. - It would be great if somebody did a dump of the entire forum.

I don't get it. Blockstream won.

They now control the "reference" repo, this forum, r/bitcoin... blocks are full, fees are rising, miners do exactly as told, users are gleefully waiting to be steered into LN Hubs, altcoins, and other off-chain solutions.

Can't you just leave those guys to commiserate in peace?

[2c0de]

It's the wall street / bitcoin Classic central
They sure as hell would not make it simple for you to dump their precious and smart comments