Turns out, I should have been watching more carefully if I had looking at local or live material while testing. The individual forum scrapes dutifully copied all the thread lists, but due to the way threads were organized under /topic/<name> and not /forum/<forumname>/<topicname> it treated the thread links as external and didn't pull them, only linked to live pages. I probably should have been suspicious with how fast they completed.
Nevertheless, I still have the partial/aborted backup from before with the most recent/dated content. Which is better than nothing, but it's likely not going to help much. Still, there is nothing preventing me from simply doing the same with the way things are now, it looks as though all the essential content remains, even if the presentation is changed.
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The Master said: "It is all in vain! I have never yet seen a man who can perceive his own faults and bring the charge home against himself."
>Analects: Book V, Chaper XXVI
Nevertheless, I still have the partial/aborted backup from before with the most recent/dated content. Which is better than nothing, but it's likely not going to help much. Still, there is nothing preventing me from simply doing the same with the way things are now, it looks as though all the essential content remains, even if the presentation is changed.
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The Master said: "It is all in vain! I have never yet seen a man who can perceive his own faults and bring the charge home against himself."
>Analects: Book V, Chaper XXVI