diop (Slightly OT; Is the content of this site backed up/available to download?)
This forum has no public backup currently available.
There is an api to this site that could be used to scrape all public data. Inquiring here would be a good start for anyone interested. I don't mind scraping, but play nice if going this route 🙂
I may look into doing something like this at some point, as it is a good idea.
The current recommended approach is to use the Wiki for long time archival, which is fully public and reproducible by anyone.
Privately, non-ephemeral site data is backed up every 2 days to off-site storage immutably and is stored for > 3 months. In the event everything is lost, up to 2 days will be lost in the restore.
The software itself is publicly available as well.
I'm also notified anytime anything goes down or doesn't run correctly.
It is my intent to make as much of this community as public as possible, but I also have to balance that against a responsibility to protect the private data of users.