Arbital has been getting increasingly slow and unresponsive. The LW team is looking for fixes or work-arounds, but they aren’t familiar with the Arbital codebase. In the meantime, I’ve been helping cross-post some content from Arbital to LW so it’s available at all.
Is it possible to create, and make available, a dump of the Arbital content? I’ve no doubt that there are people who’d be willing to host the entire thing, or convert it en masse into another format, etc.
Edit: Actually, if you could just post a complete list of Arbital page names, I could extract the content myself, as the API to request page content seems sufficiently straightforward.
We’d talked about getting a dump out as well, and your plan sounds great to me! The LW team should get back to you with a list at some point (unless they think of a better idea).
While we have a long-term plan of importing Arbital’s content into LessWrong (after LessWrong acquires some wiki-like features to make it make sense), we have not taken responsibility for the maintenance of Arbital itself.
Meta: (some of?) the linked Arbital pages do not seem to work. For example, https://arbital.com/p/probability_theory/ shows me a blank page:
(There was also some sort of red box with something about a “pipeline error” or something, but it disappeared.)
I am using Chrome 74.0.3729.131 (the latest as of this writing) on a Mac.
Arbital has been getting increasingly slow and unresponsive. The LW team is looking for fixes or work-arounds, but they aren’t familiar with the Arbital codebase. In the meantime, I’ve been helping cross-post some content from Arbital to LW so it’s available at all.
Is it possible to create, and make available, a dump of the Arbital content? I’ve no doubt that there are people who’d be willing to host the entire thing, or convert it en masse into another format, etc.
Edit: Actually, if you could just post a complete list of Arbital page names, I could extract the content myself, as the API to request page content seems sufficiently straightforward.
We’d talked about getting a dump out as well, and your plan sounds great to me! The LW team should get back to you with a list at some point (unless they think of a better idea).
While we have a long-term plan of importing Arbital’s content into LessWrong (after LessWrong acquires some wiki-like features to make it make sense), we have not taken responsibility for the maintenance of Arbital itself.
I assume you mean ‘no one has this responsibility for Arbital anymore’, and not that there’s someone else who has this responsibility.
A week or so ago Arbital was working but had load times of several minutes.