Questions about archiving, and is there any way I can help?

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OK, here is a list of all the IMDb boards (most of the main Hitchcock boards + various others that I'd posted on in the past) that I was able to archive. I'll be happy to share these with anyone or any site that wants 'em.

Full Archives (Titles)
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Full Archives (Names)
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Partial Archives (Titles - formed as IMDb died!)
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I love the idea that some of what wasn't saved by Jim may be reassembled piecemeal from individual cinephiles. Makes me think of the ending of (spoiler alert) Fahrenheit 451, with all the refugees who have memorized banned books.

@swanstep, that's fantastic! That's a very valuable collection. Here's what I was able to fully download (using chobar's script) before the IMDb boards went down:
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Adventures in Babysitting (1987)
Adventures of Superman (1952)
Batman (1966)
Batman (1989)
Batman Returns (1992)
Batman: The Movie (1966)
Blondes at Work (1938)
Brendan Fraser
Dick Tracy (1990)
Dracula (1931)
Dracula (1992)
Count Dracula (1977)
Fly Away Baby (1937)
Glenda Farrell
His Girl Friday (1940)
Home Alone (1990)
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)
Horror of Dracula (1958)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
It Happened One Night (1934)
Jack LaLanne
Jeeves and Wooster (1990)
John Carter (2012)
Kerry Conran
Kevin Conran
King Kong (1933)
Metropolis (1927)
Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
Nosferatu (1922)
One Step Beyond (1959)
Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)
Prison Break (1938)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Rocket Ship (1936)
Sam Raimi
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
Smart Blonde (1937)
Song of the South (1946)
Sons of the Desert (1933)
Spider-Man (2002)
Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Spider-Man 3 (2007)
Star Trek (1966)
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)
Superman (1941)
Superman (1978)
Superman II (1980)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1984)
The Adventurous Blonde (1937)
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1991)
The Comedy of Terrors (1963)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1988)
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
The Mummy (1999)
The Mummy Returns (2001)
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)
The Phantom (1996)
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1986)
The Rocketeer (1991)
The Shadow (1994)
The Sign of Four (1987)
Torchy Blane in Chinatown (1939)
Torchy Blane in Panama (1938)
Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite (1939)
Torchy Gets Her Man (1938)
Torchy Runs for Mayor (1939)
Tremors (1990)
Wilson the Volleyball
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I had previously downloaded some of those same titles using HTTrack, but the ones downloaded using chobar's script have much smaller file sizes and are thus much easier to share online.

Here are the boards that I downloaded using HTTrack, but didn't get to re-download with chobar's script (and thus only have HTTrack versions):
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Agent Carter (2015)
Flash Gordon (1936)
Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars (1938)
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (1940)
Flash Gordon (1979)
Night at the Museum (2006)
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009)
Tobey Maguire
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Also, there were a few boards that I added to Archive.org's Wayback Machine. Here they are:
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Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)

http://web.archive.org/web/20170219213534/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0346156/board/threads/

Glenda Farrell:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170207202036/http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0268225/board/threads/

Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)

http://web.archive.org/web/20170219220722/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024368/board/threads/

Smart Blonde (1937)

http://web.archive.org/web/20170217070354/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029581/board/threads/

Fly Away Baby (1937)

http://web.archive.org/web/20170217070727/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028882/board/threads/

The Adventurous Blonde (1937)

http://web.archive.org/web/20170217071113/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028555/board/threads/

Blondes at Work (1938)

https://web.archive.org/web/20170217070150/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029926/board/threads/

Torchy Blane in Panama (1938)

https://web.archive.org/web/20170217064523/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030883/board/threads/

Torchy Gets Her Man (1938):

http://web.archive.org/web/20170217064032/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030884/board/threads/

Torchy Blane in Chinatown (1939)

https://web.archive.org/web/20170217065024/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030882/board/threads/

Torchy Runs for Mayor (1939)

http://web.archive.org/web/20170217063719/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032045/board/threads/

Torchy Blane.. Playing With Dynamite (1939):

https://web.archive.org/web/20170207203757/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032044/board/threads/

Prison Break (1938)

http://web.archive.org/web/20170217065615/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030625/board/threads/
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Also, a IMDb user named obake_neko informed me that he had saved a large number of IMDb boards to the Wayback Machine. Here is his IMDb list of all the boards that he added to the Wayback Machine: http://www.imdb.com/list/ls062970585/

To view each of the archived boards in his list, just copy the link of the movie's IMDb page, add board/ to the end, and search for it on the Wayback Machine. The list is two pages long, and includes a whopping 140 titles.

Also, here is the (50 title) list of some other boards that he saved to Archive.li: http://www.imdb.com/list/ls062970131/

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@hbenthow. Looking quickly through your list as well as obake_neko's lists I see almost no overlap with mine. Thus between just the three of us we have around 300 boards fully archived. That's a good supplement to whatever moviechat.org grabbed by itself. This place could start to feel quite homey over the next few weeks.

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@Abz16, I'm sorry, but it's too late. The IMDb boards were already down when you posted your message. Maybe someone somewhere downloaded it, so it might be archived somewhere. There's no knowing at this point.