Not a problem. I love this kind of project and it is the kind of thing I can actually help with. It's nice to feel useful.

I am clueless and hopeless with this kind of thing, but I'm willing to throw money at it, when it will help. Throwing money at things, I'm good at.

Okay. It is downloading. The version I tried last night was getting stuck, so I aborted, went back to HTTrack. It seems to be working well, but only by telling it to ignore the directory structure of the original site.

What this means is that the site will come out in a format that will be totally useable, but NOT logical. So continuing to add to it will be difficult or impossible.

This leads to the question: is it worth it? Does it make more sense to just leave it on the Wayback machine, which already has it archived, and add a link to it on Buffista links? Recreating ita's original code and directory structure is not really possible.

I just got hit with a bunch of ita feels that I know would make her scream with frustration - random FB post of a list of Six Celebrities Who Are Secretly Business Geniuses!, and the accompanying picture is of Carrot Top. I have all the feels, but I really don't know how I feel about facing a lifetime of all the feels triggered by Carrot Top.

I don't think we need to set it up in a way that someone would add to it. I'm fine with having it preserved.

I guess I hate leaving things solely to the Wayback Machine. I don't know what their policy is, but if someone made a copyright claim against an image, I'd worry that the site might be removed. I'm pretty sure I've seen it happen before.

Would it wiork to set up provocateuse sites on tumblr? That way they could be added to. I would actually volunteer to set them up if I could get sent either all the images or links to the ones she used. I would tag each one with the subject's name, so it would be searchable. Crazy?

I should be able to get all of the images if I keep chugging. Tumblr might be a logical place for them.

I don't mind doing grunt work on Tumblr either. I have to admit, I also worry about what will happen if/when Tumblr disappears or changes policies or whatever, but I've seen a lot of web hosts and services come and go.

I am going to see if I can get the tumblr names tonight or as close as I can. There was hands, glasses, wet, men in dresses/skirts, silver foxes, and what else? What was the women one?

Naturally, ita already had [link]

The women one was Venus. From the Tumblr:

venus (women), barefoot (guess), wet men (go on), skirts (men in skirts), silver foxes (hot older people of all genders), spectacles (sexy men in glasses, and the occasional monocle)