Hello my friends on teamfortress.tv,
I have recently become aware that the ESEA news articles that I grew up reading and considered to be "lost media" are still up; at least some of them. When you go on the ESEA website and go to the old news archives, most of the old articles are actually not shown. I thought this meant that they were removed, since the ESEA website removed basically all ties to TF2 years ago.
IF, HOWEVER, you go to the search bar on the top right and search for "TF2", then go to advanced search and filter to "News", you can see a bunch of the old power ranking and prediction articles. (link: https://play.esea.net/search?query=tf2&index=content)
These appear to be unsorted, or sorted in some random order of relevance, so it's hard to see what exactly is there, but not everything that I remember to exist shows up in the results. I suspect this is because they aren't showing up in the TF2 search result, maybe they didn't have it in the article anywhere.
basically, I want to have a backup of these articles so they don't get lost, and organize them in a way that makes sense and allows tf2 Historians to go back and read up on them. I don't know what would be the best way to do this yet, and I also want to make sure that all the articles are accounted for (hopefully none have actually been deleted). I'm making this thread for any other boomers who might want to go back and read them.
Hello my friends on teamfortress.tv,
I have recently become aware that the ESEA news articles that I grew up reading and considered to be "lost media" are still up; at least some of them. When you go on the ESEA website and go to the old news archives, most of the old articles are actually not shown. I thought this meant that they were removed, since the ESEA website removed basically all ties to TF2 years ago.
IF, HOWEVER, you go to the search bar on the top right and search for "TF2", then go to advanced search and filter to "News", you can see a bunch of the old power ranking and prediction articles. (link: https://play.esea.net/search?query=tf2&index=content)
These appear to be unsorted, or sorted in some random order of relevance, so it's hard to see what exactly is there, but not everything that I remember to exist shows up in the results. I suspect this is because they aren't showing up in the TF2 search result, maybe they didn't have it in the article anywhere.
basically, I want to have a backup of these articles so they don't get lost, and organize them in a way that makes sense and allows tf2 Historians to go back and read up on them. I don't know what would be the best way to do this yet, and I also want to make sure that all the articles are accounted for (hopefully none have actually been deleted). I'm making this thread for any other boomers who might want to go back and read them.
comp.tf has been using archive.ph for this kind of thing since 2014. For example, the old i55 splash page on Insomnia's website is archived here. There's probably better apps than archive.ph out there which might be worth switching to.
I started by archiving TF2 Storylines: compLexity TF2. From there, these links could be put on the corresponding ESEA season pages on Team Fortress Liquipedia or comp.tf as external links/media.
As for comp.tf, we could go a step further and copy the text and create an comp.tf article for each ESEA article. That way if archive.ph goes down, we still have copies. Not sure if Liquipedia would allow that kind of content but hopefully they do.
Not sure if there are better solutions elsewhere, but I can start working on archiving these. Would be a big shame to lose them.
[url=https://comp.tf/]comp.tf[/url] has been using [url=https://archive.ph/]archive.ph[/url] for this kind of thing since 2014. For example, the old i55 splash page on Insomnia's website is archived [url=https://archive.is/3mJas]here[/url]. There's probably better apps than archive.ph out there which might be worth switching to.
I started by archiving [url=https://archive.ph/txEXz]TF2 Storylines: compLexity TF2[/url]. From there, these links could be put on the corresponding ESEA season pages on [url=https://liquipedia.net/teamfortress/Main_Page]Team Fortress Liquipedia[/url] or [url=https://comp.tf/]comp.tf[/url] as external links/media.
As for comp.tf, we could go a step further and copy the text and create an comp.tf article for each ESEA article. That way if archive.ph goes down, we still have copies. Not sure if Liquipedia would allow that kind of content but hopefully they do.
Not sure if there are better solutions elsewhere, but I can start working on archiving these. Would be a big shame to lose them.
corbtcomp.tf has been using archive.ph for this kind of thing since 2014. For example, the old i55 splash page on Insomnia's website is archived here. There's probably better apps than archive.ph out there which might be worth switching to.
I started by archiving TF2 Storylines: compLexity TF2. From there, these links could be put on the corresponding ESEA season pages on Team Fortress Liquipedia or comp.tf as external links/media.
As for comp.tf, we could go a step further and copy the text and create an comp.tf article for each ESEA article. That way if archive.ph goes down, we still have copies. Not sure if Liquipedia would allow that kind of content but hopefully they do.
Not sure if there are better solutions elsewhere, but I can start working on archiving these. Would be a big shame to lose them.
the wayback machine/internet archive is another good choice to archive stuff
[quote=corbt][url=https://comp.tf/]comp.tf[/url] has been using [url=https://archive.ph/]archive.ph[/url] for this kind of thing since 2014. For example, the old i55 splash page on Insomnia's website is archived [url=https://archive.is/3mJas]here[/url]. There's probably better apps than archive.ph out there which might be worth switching to.
I started by archiving [url=https://archive.ph/txEXz]TF2 Storylines: compLexity TF2[/url]. From there, these links could be put on the corresponding ESEA season pages on [url=https://liquipedia.net/teamfortress/Main_Page]Team Fortress Liquipedia[/url] or [url=https://comp.tf/]comp.tf[/url] as external links/media.
As for comp.tf, we could go a step further and copy the text and create an comp.tf article for each ESEA article. That way if archive.ph goes down, we still have copies. Not sure if Liquipedia would allow that kind of content but hopefully they do.
Not sure if there are better solutions elsewhere, but I can start working on archiving these. Would be a big shame to lose them.[/quote]
the wayback machine/internet archive is another good choice to archive stuff
corbtcomp.tf has been using archive.ph for this kind of thing since 2014. For example, the old i55 splash page on Insomnia's website is archived here. There's probably better apps than archive.ph out there which might be worth switching to.
I started by archiving TF2 Storylines: compLexity TF2. From there, these links could be put on the corresponding ESEA season pages on Team Fortress Liquipedia or comp.tf as external links/media.
As for comp.tf, we could go a step further and copy the text and create an comp.tf article for each ESEA article. That way if archive.ph goes down, we still have copies. Not sure if Liquipedia would allow that kind of content but hopefully they do.
Not sure if there are better solutions elsewhere, but I can start working on archiving these. Would be a big shame to lose them.
I'm working on archiving every article right now, once I'm done with that I'll see if I can get them on comp.tf as well
unfortunately esea seems to block archive.org from working with its cloudflare settings or something, so I was using archive.ph which does work just fine
[quote=corbt][url=https://comp.tf/]comp.tf[/url] has been using [url=https://archive.ph/]archive.ph[/url] for this kind of thing since 2014. For example, the old i55 splash page on Insomnia's website is archived [url=https://archive.is/3mJas]here[/url]. There's probably better apps than archive.ph out there which might be worth switching to.
I started by archiving [url=https://archive.ph/txEXz]TF2 Storylines: compLexity TF2[/url]. From there, these links could be put on the corresponding ESEA season pages on [url=https://liquipedia.net/teamfortress/Main_Page]Team Fortress Liquipedia[/url] or [url=https://comp.tf/]comp.tf[/url] as external links/media.
As for comp.tf, we could go a step further and copy the text and create an comp.tf article for each ESEA article. That way if archive.ph goes down, we still have copies. Not sure if Liquipedia would allow that kind of content but hopefully they do.
Not sure if there are better solutions elsewhere, but I can start working on archiving these. Would be a big shame to lose them.[/quote]
I'm working on archiving every article right now, once I'm done with that I'll see if I can get them on comp.tf as well
unfortunately esea seems to block archive.org from working with its cloudflare settings or something, so I was using archive.ph which does work just fine
I would do this soon as ESEA have moved all operations to FACEIT, they're probably going to close the site at some point.
I would do this soon as ESEA have moved all operations to FACEIT, they're probably going to close the site at some point.
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I'm working on archiving every article right now, once I'm done with that I'll see if I can get them on comp.tf as well
unfortunately esea seems to block archive.org from working with its cloudflare settings or something, so I was using archive.ph which does work just fine
I've added an article to the ESEA-I Season 22 page to show an example of the syntax. Happy to add them all to the appropriate pages if you send me the links as well.
[quote=trippa][quote=corbt][/quote]
I'm working on archiving every article right now, once I'm done with that I'll see if I can get them on comp.tf as well
unfortunately esea seems to block archive.org from working with its cloudflare settings or something, so I was using archive.ph which does work just fine[/quote]
I've added an article to the [url=https://comp.tf/wiki/ESEA_Season_22/Invite#External_links]ESEA-I Season 22[/url] page to show an example of the syntax. Happy to add them all to the appropriate pages if you send me the links as well.