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@Draconis

On a similar note, is it possible to reintroduce commonly-used words to the search? I was trying to find mentions of Ron Newcomb’s “Original Parser”, but the word “parser” was removed as being too common.

I use the backup of the forum, and local search. Because code blocks are neither part of the forum’s search function.

Forum Backups and ATOM Feed

I thought this was mentioned once before, but in case it wasn’t, backups of all public posts exist at ifarchive.org. This happens once per quarter. Each backup includes the posts since the beginning (not just the new stuff), making it possible to get historical views even if old posts are later edited or deleted. Private messages, private forums (such as for the IFComp authors) and user account information is not included. The .zip archive for each quarter contains a single large text file cont…