Please make the old issues available about www HOT 6 CLOSED

Please can you make these available? It's not exactly encouraging to see threads like these lose all context because the issue has been erased. Now, because I don't have a reference of anything in this thread I don't know if this was closed, what priority it had/has, any workarounds, or how many people experienced this issue. It also discourages me from creating a new issue because what's to stop you guys deleting this repository as well and starting over again?

For what it's worth, I'm experiencing this bug still. 😐

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@JesseWeinstein This is a great idea, but is a low priority for us. We’re definitely not opposed, though. If somebody has a script that can help us grab all of the old issues and put them in a file (json works nicely), we’d be happy to put it in here for downloading.

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Great! I can certainly understand it being low priority, and I don't think it's particularly urgent, either -- but I would be glad for it to be done eventually.

Regarding scripts, my first thought is https://github.com/joeyh/github-backup . I haven't used it personally, though, so there may be a better alternative available. I'll ask around.

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That is a good example of why this is important. It would be most easily solved by just making the repo public again, and adding a prominent notice: "This is for HISTORICAL REFERENCE ONLY." But I suppose there are presumably some reasons why that wasn't considered an acceptable solution.

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Also, another possible solution would be to make the repo public again for a short, designated period, and asking the Internet Archive (or ArchiveTeam) to scrape a copy of the issues into the Wayback Machine. Then the repo could be made private again, but the material could still be found at least by those who know to look in the Wayback Machine.

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Could I get this re-opened, so it doesn't get lost? If I don't get a response in about a month, I'll open a new issue requesting that this one be re-opened...

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