Thanks for digging into the T&C, your analysis seems correct to me. I think we do want users to retain their rights – more than once people have been reluctant to post if might cost them their rights and other publishing opportunities. I think it’d be very costly to make writing seem costlier to authors.
Regarding an API endpoint – we have one! See here for a tutorial. The main thing is that if you wanted to archive everything, I’m not sure it’s so great if you wanted to get comments too. Pulling all the posts and all the comments and assembling correctly would be a hassle. I think you’re better trying to get archive via Internet Archive or similar. Deltas would indeed be tricky. But I assure you, we are not going to let the site data get lost!
Sorry for the delayed reply yet again, my bad.
Thanks for digging into the T&C, your analysis seems correct to me. I think we do want users to retain their rights – more than once people have been reluctant to post if might cost them their rights and other publishing opportunities. I think it’d be very costly to make writing seem costlier to authors.
Regarding an API endpoint – we have one! See here for a tutorial. The main thing is that if you wanted to archive everything, I’m not sure it’s so great if you wanted to get comments too. Pulling all the posts and all the comments and assembling correctly would be a hassle. I think you’re better trying to get archive via Internet Archive or similar. Deltas would indeed be tricky. But I assure you, we are not going to let the site data get lost!
No worries! Thanks for the reply.