No @Busy-Lizzie. The archive needs to be made page by page with readily available archives/open source software and it takes too much time - I cannot spend that much time; so given up. If all the posts in a thread could be put in a single page (like houzz), it would've been possible to archive.
Not quite. I used the archiving site mentioned elsewhere to copy the whole of the 'make your own compost' thread and could move from page to page (although it opened a new window each time so you have to clear up behind yourself!).
@LunarSea at the outset, thanks for your comment. I'm not very well versed with archiving threads. Did you manage to create an archive of all 58+ pages of the 'make your own compost ' thread one shot? I tried using this site, https://archive.vn/. If you can give me more hints, probably I can work it out. Please can you explain what you mean by 'clearing up behind yourself'. In the archive, when I open the 2nd page, it reverts back to GW. Doesn't that mean that I have to archive P2, then P3 and so on. Each of the rose threads are 200+ pages. Thanks for your help 🙂
@Eustace I've just tried again with @Marlorena's current rose thread. This is the archive:
It seems to work ok and isn't as bad as I originally thought re: multiple windows. Try it. Anyway, when you archive it you need to start at the top level. So on the GW forum main screen, right click on the thread title and choose 'Copy Link'. Paste this URL into the "My url is alive and I want to archive its content" box on the 'archive.vn' page. It will take a while but eventually will deliver a URL that you can save for posterity. Not sure how long for though.
Thanks to @diggersjo for putting us onto this site
Clay soil - Cheshire/Derbyshire border. I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
I’m finding it a bit complicated trying to locate certain threads and find fellow posters from here. They and the threads are hidden away behind multiple headings so it isn’t easy finding them.Its appears quite busy to my eyes even though I am beginning to understand certain elements. It’s tiring though.😬
Wow just logged in after a busy week and found this. Horrible news to be loosing my “comfy spot”, especially as I was just getting comfortable again after the last couple of horrible years. I guess I’ll go look at the other forum.
Marne la vallée, basically just outside Paris 🇫🇷, but definitely Scottish at heart.
It's such a shame @Jacquimcmahon maybe you can come and join us at Gardeners Corner, it's a bit busy visually but lots of nice people so far and overall actually has more areas to post than on here.
Everybody, write your feelings about this closure in a letter and send it to the Letters page of the GW magazine for publication. Let the wider world know what a lousy organisation they are supporting. I have.
I
have been a subscriber for some years. I strongly believe that no-one
should work for free and this was the main reason why I wanted to pay
for the services that the website and forum offered. Over the years, I
used the Premium content on the website, and found many answers in the
forum that helped to transform my garden. The content on the website
and in the magazine now keep repeating and I noticed that I neither read
the magazine nor look at the Premium content. Like me, many
subscribers joined the forum and even the forum was for free, they kept
the subscription out of loyalty because it worked like one package that
covers everything.
With the decision to close the forum so
suddenly, the company behind the subscription model has done little
favour for the brand "Gardeners World". You can find such decisions
done by other brands too. They are done by marketing departments on
behalf of CEOs who themselves acted on behalf of brand owners with the
purpose of re-branding and looking for new paying customers in younger
age. There seems to be a believe in many companies that getting rid of
its long-life users who make the heart of a brand, would be the best way
to start from scratch and to attract younger customers with the
intention to have a new basis for the years ahead. I can't remember
an example where this decision has worked out. All of them had to
realise that the decision did the opposite effect they originally hoped
for, and a decline in paying customer couldn't be stopped.
The closure of the forum has the same effect on me. I will not renew my subscription.
Many thanks for years of happiness, but life goes on. Wishing you good luck with your new paying customers.
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@Eustace I've just tried again with @Marlorena's current rose thread. This is the archive:
ROSES.. 2024.. Spring/Summer.. — BBC Gardeners' World Magazine (archive.vn)
It seems to work ok and isn't as bad as I originally thought re: multiple windows. Try it. Anyway, when you archive it you need to start at the top level. So on the GW forum main screen, right click on the thread title and choose 'Copy Link'. Paste this URL into the "My url is alive and I want to archive its content" box on the 'archive.vn' page. It will take a while but eventually will deliver a URL that you can save for posterity. Not sure how long for though.
Thanks to @diggersjo for putting us onto this site
I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Dear Gardeners World
I have been a subscriber for some years. I strongly believe that no-one should work for free and this was the main reason why I wanted to pay for the services that the website and forum offered.
Over the years, I used the Premium content on the website, and found many answers in the forum that helped to transform my garden.
The content on the website and in the magazine now keep repeating and I noticed that I neither read the magazine nor look at the Premium content.
Like me, many subscribers joined the forum and even the forum was for free, they kept the subscription out of loyalty because it worked like one package that covers everything.
With the decision to close the forum so suddenly, the company behind the subscription model has done little favour for the brand "Gardeners World".
You can find such decisions done by other brands too. They are done by marketing departments on behalf of CEOs who themselves acted on behalf of brand owners with the purpose of re-branding and looking for new paying customers in younger age. There seems to be a believe in many companies that getting rid of its long-life users who make the heart of a brand, would be the best way to start from scratch and to attract younger customers with the intention to have a new basis for the years ahead.
I can't remember an example where this decision has worked out. All of them had to realise that the decision did the opposite effect they originally hoped for, and a decline in paying customer couldn't be stopped.
The closure of the forum has the same effect on me. I will not renew my subscription.
Many thanks for years of happiness, but life goes on.
Wishing you good luck with your new paying customers.
I ♥ my garden.
I stopped my subscription for the magazine a few years ago, it got too repetitive.