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Hello! I wasn't sure if this belongs here, or in the bug/feedback tracker forum, so I figured I put it here, and worst comes to worst it just gets moved.
 
Anyways, it all started with me looking for a entry from an oooold bbc contest that I couldn't find anywhere, which prompted me to look for the history topic later on.
 
Surprised to find one was non existent, I did some research and found that nobody had remade the topic yet, partly because of the missing entries between November 2008 (the latest web archive of the topic) and October 2011 (the oldest BBC contest that can still be found on the forum), and also because it appears that those who were going to try and put it back up simply couldn't find the time to reconstruct it all, with the last mention of it I could find somewhere around a year ago.
 
That all being said, I have done some extensive searching on the interwebs, and found a decent amount of information about the lost BBC entries, which you can see here:
 
Dropbox Link (because Brickshelf wont let me upload .txt's)
 
its far from complete, but at least its something, and I'm sure it could be added upon if any of the staff or something have good knowledge of the missing past, or access to old files on their drives of deleted topics, or something like that.
 
Anyways, Here comes my question, finally! Would it be useful to BZPower if I took the information I gathered, along with the existing older and newer still-archived information to make a properly formatted and such history post of all the past BBC entries, which I could then send to an Admin or someone to have made effectively into the new BBC history topic?
 
I personally think its important for BZP to preserve its history, even with so much of it lost in the past, and I'm hoping by doing this I can help keep some of the old days in view of those just joining/still here in the present :)

 

(And hopefully I didn't miss something along the way, and there actually is a new topic hiding somewhere/I missed a recent post where someone else is planning to reconstruct it/theres a spot somewhere that isn't posted, but has all the BBC information already ready to be; apologies if any of this is the case!)
 
--Akaku: Master of Flight

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I think it would be nice to have a reconstructed BBCC History topic, even if it would be incomplete and missing some links (seeing that the old forum archive is gone...). At the very least, it shouldn't be too hard to construct a history from contests held here on the new board.

 

(By the way, this prompted me to go update the General Art Contest list in that forum's rules topic. And now I must fill one out for Comics and G&T...)

 

Tufi Piyufi leads the BBC forum, so you may want to talk to her about this.

 

Thanks!

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I think it would be nice to have a reconstructed BBCC History topic, even if it would be incomplete and missing some links (seeing that the old forum archive is gone...). At the very least, it shouldn't be too hard to construct a history from contests held here on the new board.

 

(By the way, this prompted me to go update the General Art Contest list in that forum's rules topic. And now I must fill one out for Comics and G&T...)

 

Tufi Piyufi leads the BBC forum, so you may want to talk to her about this.

 

Thanks!

 

No problem! :)

 

The old forum archive may be gone, but the first 50 BBC's can still be found on the wayback machine, here; the ones I posted here are the ones that don't exist anywhere anymore on any existant archive, (which luckly enough is only about ten of them)  :P

 

(Woo! I was thinking about seeing what the art contest history situation was after this, glad to hear theres still one going for them :))

 

Tufi? Alrighty then, i'll contact her; thanks for the tip!

 

--Akaku: Master of Flight

"I've brushed with death so often I should start giving him high-fives while I pass."

Recent Work: Return to Forum (2024)
Friend's works: Terrible Comics (2016) | The Guardians of Gevra Nui (2017) | Reborn (2016)
Older Work: The Legends of Taladi Nui (2017)

 

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