The Official Searching for a Fic thread

[shazza]

I love you.

[PancaKe]

Hey Ada (or anyone really), how do you use wayback machine to seach up the fanfic forum?? Grrr at not being able to figure it out.

[mr_pikachu]

It's rather difficult, because the Wayback Machine often struggles at archiving forum pages in an easy-to-access manner. Oftentimes the main forum page will be archived perfectly well, but none of the links to subforums or threads work.

My most common trick? If you can figure out what the old thread URL was, try searching that in Wayback.

Finding the URL, though, can be difficult. You'll likely have to access multiple editions of the forum until you find one that will let you in the Fanfic section. There is an alternative if you're feeling lucky. If the Wayback Machine ever archived a version of the forum with the fic you want as the most recent post, then you'll be able to get the link from that. That should make searching significantly easier.

This is Ada, signing off.