Welcome @FabCreator — FabCreator community imported.
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@funinthefalls it’s not obvious where to import tinyG — feels like we should have a controllers category with a sub-category for each specific controller; regardless of whether we’re pulling in old G+ content; tinyG, smoothie, etc. thoughts?
Sure A controller cat with sub cats sounds OK.
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TinyG imported.
Smoothie created, along with link to official support forum. @Arthur_Wolf clearly hasn’t had time to publish the static archive I made for him, and why should he waste his time on that? I think if he doesn’t notice that I asked about pulling the content into that category soon I should just import it…
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Sorry for not having the time to take care of the archive yet, I hope I find the time soon, things are pretty crazy here at the moment.
@Arthur_Wolf exactly, you are busy! Do you strenuously object to me importing the old G+ content here, along with the description that exists already pointing people to the official support forum? I’d love to make your life just a little easier!
Update:
@anon57870006 recently posted with a screenshot of a post from the old quadrap community, which I had archived but not yet had a chance to examine. Looks like there’s lots of useful stuff in there. The community content stopped before July 2017 and the spammers descended (with comment spam) after that, so I’m planning to drop posts and comments by date.
…Done, we have the real quadrap content archived here.
And @anon57870006 suggested some more interesting communities.
One more 3d printing-related community:
- RingRap [Update: imported]
Looking further out into the making community:
- OpenRC Project [Update: archived for future investigation; noticed only one spam post afte reviewing two years of history, amazingly clean! @Daniel_Noree approved this port on Google+. Port complete ]
- DIY Flying Robots / UAVs [Update: archived for future investigation; needs spam cleaning prior to import as it looks like mostly spam at least back through mid 2016. Perhaps a whitelist would be more appropriate for this import? Moderator @Marc_MERLIN approved the port, looking for volunteers to provide whitelist of people who created useful content.]
Do those two especially spark more ideas of useful maker content to capture? We have a couple more weeks in which to archive, but I don’t want to bet on G+ being fully available until the last possible day. Get those nominations in!
I very much propose the FastLED library community - there is info there that is not available anywhere else > https://plus.google.com/communities/109127054924227823508
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I nominate https://plus.google.com/communities/115308608951565782559 the Kankun wifi switch plug community
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Oh yes, I didn’t even know about that community. Looks very interesting.
Thank you! Looks like a great idea, and Marc MERLIN responded there with thanks, so that import is underway. I haven’t looked for spam yet, but there is clearly real content there.
I’ll plan to archive it, but it has substantial spam in it, so porting the content here will have to wait for someone who is willing to filter it for spam; we’re trying to avoid porting lots of spam into makerforums.
As long as I get content archived before the Google+ shutdown, the port to makerforums can happen after the shutdown, so I’m focusing first on archive for nominated communities.
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Thank you Michael! You rock.
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Any chance you could help me archive a non-maker community? Sorry if it’s taboo to ask such a thing here. It’s a 25k member G+ group. I’m pretty technical, but not a coder it that helps anything. Have plenty of websites up and running, but not as skilled as you to do such a task.
Semi related: I just got a new Ender 3, and plan on joining the community soon enough. (relatively)
In any case, awesome work. Thanks for using your powers for good!
@Jesse_Kramasz My family have been extremely tolerant of my passion for saving maker communities, but I don’t think I can ask for more. I can make suggestions at least. The Friends+Me Google+ Exporter is now I think $25 nope still $20 as of this writing and lets you export to WordPress and blogger as well as the JSON format I’m using. There are others who will do the discourse import process for a fee as it’s their consulting day job, and my discourse importer is open source. Google takeout is now supposed to give owners and moderators a static site which you could deploy. There are several open source tools for rescuing information. For example, you can look at https://github.com/FiXato/Plexodus-Tools
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Awesome, thank you so much for the info. 
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Very welcome!
I have a sneaking suspicion that at least some new posts here might be thanks to the hackaday post so I’ll wave hello to new people, and mention that I posted there about some of the alternatives as well.
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Yeah the FastLed community is invaluable
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…and amazingly free of spam looking at my test imports so far. When I saw that it had some of the most posts of any community I tried to import so far, I was worried about buried spam, but after processing 2000 of the roughly 6500 posts, less than 1% of posts and less than 2% of comments were by already-identified spammers. That’s amazing work. I identified only two more spammers while scrolling through the community for a while. This is amazingly clean!
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Yeah I was going to say that I’ve rarely seen spam in the FastLED Community on G+. On the rare occasion that I’ve seen any there, I’ve always reported it, and I’m guessing others have been proactive, as well.
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