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.
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.