The New Sudoku Players' Forum

[m_b_metcalf]

To save a web page from this forum for later offline (no internet) viewing:
- use Internet Explorer (it's ancient, and unsupported!), or Firefox (I used 101.0)

Thanks for the information. Microsoft Edge, IE's successor and supported, seems to work too.

M

[denis_berthier]

With Safari on a Mac, there are 2 ways:
- save the page as a ".webarchive" - readable only in Safari on Mac (I don't know for the win version)
- File > Export to pdf ; if you want the hidden parts to be recorded, you must open them before.
Although the 1st method is simpler, I now use the 2nd, which produces a pdf readable on any platform (images included).

[1to9only]

Thanks for the information. Microsoft Edge, IE's successor and supported, seems to work too.

I don't use Edge.
Edge is also Chrome based, good to know it works.
The browsers I use are heavily configured and restricted, maybe that's why my tests with Chrome based browsers did not work out.
I'll be using Firefox.

Having looked at the saved files, they can be modified:
- to correctly display the forum icons in offline mode (they display correctly if online as they get fetched from the web site!)
- to remove session identifiers (sid)

[yzfwsf]

Forums can be cloned using Offline Explorer.

[1to9only]

Current enjoysudoku STATISTICS: Total posts 175086 • Total topics 11867
It's a lot to synch. I'm Ok with just grabbing the interesting threads.

[JPF]

It would be a shame if all this mass of ideas and properties developed by so many prestigious contributors of this forum disappeared as was the case for the Programmers forum.
It is therefore urgent to organize a general back-up of the Forum pages.
The key to these problems seems to lie in the situation of the owner JasonLion = Jason Linhart and in his intentions concerning the Forum.
Since Jason's direct contact at this address jason@enjoysudoku.com seems ineffective, I only see direct contact (by phone) to find out his intentions.
Since Jason seems to live in Maryland, is it possible to ask one of our American members to try to get in touch with him or his entourage to find out what the situation is and / or what his intentions are regarding this forum?

JPF

[m_b_metcalf]

Since Jason seems to live in Maryland, is it possible to ask one of our American members to try to get in touch with him or his entourage to find out what the situation is and / or what his intentions are regarding this forum?

It appears not to be possible to access the white pages from outside the US, but for those who live there note that he lives (or lived) in Silver Spring, MD 20904.

[Edit: Jason T Linhart, Age 63
Current Address: **** 17th Ct NE, Olympia, WA
Possible alternative e-mail address: jason@yahoo.com]

Mike

[Pat]

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+1 - 301 - 384 8886

try?

[JPF]

after some research...

From Facebook:

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Caroline Kenner, July 21, 2021
Dear Ones, a wonderful thing has happened. Jason and I are selling The Fool’s Dog to Quicksilver Cards and Games LLC, which is the name our dear friends Sara Mastros, and Ann and John White have chosen for their new software company. Quicksilver is also purchasing Jason’s top-rated Sudoku game, Enjoy Sudoku.
Our friends have the ideal gifts and talents for managing all of the tasks required to run the apps. John is a lot like Jason in many ways. He has been working as a computer consultant for the Feds for decades, and he’d like to be self employed now. Ann retired from her federal job recently. Ann and I were baby Witches together, and I have always felt like her older sister. Ann is a member of Gwendolyn’s coven within the Assembly of the Sacred Wheel.
Meanwhile, Ann and I met Sara on our magical pilgrimage to Greece in 2015. For those of you who do not know her, Sara is a professional diviner, magical worker, and teacher of witchcraft. Her book on magical incense will be released later this year by Red Wheel / Weiser. Her translation of the Orphic Hymns was well-received in its initial private edition, and is soon to be re-published by Hadean Press.
Jason and I look forward to doing everything possible to facilitate a smooth transition. We be retired by Jason’s birthday on November 1st.
One more fiscal quarter to go. It’s been a labor of love, every single moment.

JPF

[Pat]

amazing!
thanks.

m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10159983018606410&id=703226409

[denis_berthier]

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Yep, amazing ... that this forum is not even mentioned.
As for the "top-rated" enjoysudoku app, I just checked: the iOS version has not been updated for several years. (I don't know for the Android version.)

For anyone really interested in some pages of this forum, I'd strongly recommend to hurry to make private copies. AFAIK, this has to be done page by page, which drastically limits what can be saved by anyone.

[Pat]

www.quicksilvercards.com does mention us... so?

[denis_berthier]

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I was speaking of the facebook page you mentioned: nothing about this forum. Buying an app is one thing. Managing a forum is another one.

[Pat]

Jason still visits... or is it the new owner, using Jason's login?

[1to9only]

Jason still visits... or is it the new owner, using Jason's login?

ACP? I think to stop and restart g.r.emlin would require admin login to the unix box.

AFAIK, this has to be done page by page, which drastically limits what can be saved by anyone.

Scripting can help automate a fair bit of the process.

Windows 10 comes with curl.exe (a command line tool) - it can be used to download web pages.

This downloads the Board Index page (saved in index.html):

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curl.exe http://forum.enjoysudoku.com/ > index.html


These gets you the 4 pages of this thread:

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curl.exe -O http://forum.enjoysudoku.com/hardest-thread-disappeared-t40014.html
curl.exe -O http://forum.enjoysudoku.com/hardest-thread-disappeared-t40014-15.html
curl.exe -O http://forum.enjoysudoku.com/hardest-thread-disappeared-t40014-30.html
curl.exe -O http://forum.enjoysudoku.com/hardest-thread-disappeared-t40014-45.html


This gets you the 1st (of 34) pages in the 'Advanced solving techniques' section:

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curl.exe -O http://forum.enjoysudoku.com/advanced-solving-techniques-f6.html


If you get all 34 pages, scripting can help extract the threads URLs.

About the saved web pages (if you saved one or more of the above):
When connected to the Internet, these display correcly in a brower, as required files and images are retrieved from the web site.
When completely offline (no Internet), the saved pages do not display correctly. The files needed can be downloaded (when online!), and the saved web pages modified to use the local copies. I've done this manually a few times, but the process can be mostly automated using scripts.

Edit: 4 pages in this thread. in future, adjust/extend as thread grows...