Well I'll be, if it isn't mrs pianoman.

You won that one: """hahaha Noface that's one way to tell us! She sounds great and I'm so happy you found someone who is so much who you wanted! I remember the whole "finding someonw who's right for you" thing was hard for you before so I'm glad you're happy :) """

But you probably knew that already and just wanted to brag. :P

Shenanigans.

You mean actual husband? That pretty much trumps any change on this side of the interwebz. Weren't you on a mission?

Hum, congratulations then.
@DocteurRalph is around every so often, haven't seen cait or noface in a while. Unfortunately cbs took all the mail addresses with them.

Soco's post is somewhat concentrated, you can drop off more names too: https://help-qa.com/posts/41-okay-who-is-still-...

By the way, when you at sign someone's username it invites them to the post, instead of the old tickboxes.

Welcome back 😄

@Pianoman91894 Stopped by for a short time. Maybe we can get him back for a big reunion. 😉

I invited Cait (friends in real life) but she isn’t quite ready to come back yet, I don’t think.

Happy to hear you’re doing so well! 😄

Welcome back!

Welcome back ☺️

For the record- "The Post of Legends" was a competition to see who the very last poster would be.
The beginning of the post was basically discussing "when" the competition ended, if it was the last reply. No consensus was ever reached.

However, I don't think I'll have much resistance when I say the closing of the original Help is a good "end" to the post, so I'd like to announce the winner. 😄

The Post of Legends had a grand total of 6,166 replies. The winner is none other than the author of this post: @HastaIguanaPianoman

Congratulations. 🎉

Wait, are you married to Pianoman? Weren't you just hasta iguana before? It was a play on words like hasta manana or something, and I'm pretty sure I won that long long long post competition... where are you getting your information from Rockster? Wow welcome back Pasta.. yeah you you were pasta manana and iguana and changed your name more than a few times I think.

So were you from out there in Utah or Arizona? Mormon? Man my memory is getting a giant jolt tonight, it has been years. That crazy 6,000 reply Post of Legends was a part of my life for a long time too, ha ha.

Yeah it's crazy how long it's been. I think Help stopped being Help 5 or 6 years ago and now suddenly it's back but everyone has changed... well except me of course. Okay I just wanted to make sure you weren't really married to Pianoman, I remember the online wedding now.

Your mission was to Nevada? That's kind of like hanging out in your back yard isn't it? lol. I thought just guys did the two year mission thing, I didn't realize girls did that too. Well congratulations on your marriage and good luck in Utah. Yeah we have all the trees here in Tennessee, trees and hills for miles.

@DocteurRalph - It’s part of the Help Archives. The link to the post is here:

https://archive.help-qa.com/posts/302329-the-po...

Warning: The page is HUGE and will take a few minutes to load on your computer should you attempt to open it.

There is a possibility that the order of the replies got messed up in the conversion back and forth, but I think it should be accurate.

And hey! Welcome to Utah, @HastaIguanaPianoman 😄
Sorry the snow has been kind of disappointing lately. 😞 Has made for a good season on the bike though. Haven’t used my car in 3 years. 😅

I'm not going there. First of all my computer isn't as good as it used to be, like a lot of thing in my life now, and I'm afraid it would just lock up for 10 or 15 minutes. I've heard bad stories from other people about what that post did to their computers...

Plus if I did go there I'd likely be up until 5 AM just trying to read through what was going on there. It's probably a lot like a diary of my life for a few years.

Yeah Caitherra, and Hasta, and Pianoman, and wait was noface Y E T I?? He was, wasn't he??? I think everyone else was afraid to download the monster. Plus we changed the name every couple of months and had races to 1,000 replies, then 2,000 replies etc. etc. etc... boy do I ever remember.

I think I was on the post for a bit too. 😄
I definitely wasn’t a major contributor or anything. It’s pretty cool though!
I’ve got it on my todo list to optimize huge posts so that they’re more computer friendly. It’ll happen eventually. 😅

I’m pretty sure Yeti is not NoFace... But I might be wrong. Admin tools don’t work on the Archives because the only information that was stored was the stuff that’s visible, so no account info or anything like that. 😄

I could be wrong. I'm still trying to decipher what YETI said up there. And yeah I didn't mean we were the only ones that replied on that post, just that we were there an awful lot. Like every day for years... my fingers are itching now. I'm crawling in the rabbit hole, send for help if I don't make it back.

Good luck. 😄
I’ve done what I can to move most of the work server-side, but your computer still has to download and display the file, which can be tough. 😅

Not a problem. Loaded in less than 4 minutes, but I noticed that I was complaining on that post about it taking my computer 1 minute and 53 seconds to load so things are slowing down. Now I get Yeti's reply too, he wrote the last thing that was said on that post... we were racing to 6,789 replies at that point. And what is the May 13, 2014 date everywhere? Is that when the original Help died? :(

I believe that was the closing date of Help, yep. 🙁 HTG didn’t store any of the original times for some reason, which is a big loss.
Luckily they kept the incrementing ids, which gives us a way to at least retain the order of posts/replies.

The increase in time may also be the different server. CBS had a big powerful server. Compared to this one there is a BIG difference.

Only 600 replies away! Which seems like a ton, but I guess relatively it wasn’t much.

I was only yeti (and any number of other names, but only one account).

Leave it to load overnight? Oh, I see you've already jumped down that bottomless pit of fun. It's kinda slow to scroll through. Perhaps the markdown + username in plaintext could be put on pastebin or somewhere?

There's this premonitory reply around the middle of the post:
"""Eh? Thought we were a-goin' fer 6,666, and then the site crashing is the limit."""
Though actually only reached 6166.

The date isn't from when helpcom died; it's several months later, when the htg admin got around to uploading the data. Suppose he used the regular posting function only with the reply & placeholder usernames. There are fractional seconds of difference in the timestamp, totalling in a few hours, I think.

That would make the page load even slower. 😞
Unless you mean to view it on Pastebim rather than the Archive page?

That would make more sense. 😄
I didn’t look too far into it. Just pulled the timestamps that we’re given and used them. 😉

Do we know who the developer was that did all of that? I don’t think it was Ryan- he didn’t seem to have a lot of technical server knowledge.

Yeah, I meant putting that specific post's markdown elsewhere, not as a general solution (to a nonexistent problem; PoL is mount everest in the middle of flatland after all). Thence, one can for instance copy to and read from a tab delimited spreadsheet software, wherein 6k rows is trifle quantity.

At least ryan announced it, see: https://archive.help-qa.com/posts/598192-the-ol...

I think there was another admin in the beginning but don't really remember who. Perhaps @Padre_J_Roulston was better acquainted with the team.

Ah. Another option is to allow an “export” of the replies by appending .csv or something to the url. Still slow the first time, but would allow you/any user to pull the replies down into a more easily searchable/reusable format.
Then it WOULD be a generic solution that’s not too difficult. We could export that one specifically to a hosting service like pastebin or whichever regardless.

There were a couple of other admins of helptogo, but they all worked under Ryan... and for the most part didn't do much for the site.

Was there a separate developer who actually handled the export of data from OH to HTG?
No offense to Ryan, but I didn’t think he’d be able to...

Looking back on that post I was reminded of how often I used to get banned. Kind of funny really... people would always ask how they could kill themselves because they wanted to commit suicide but were only a kid and didn't have a gun and I would tell them to starve themselves. That didn't go over well.

But I mean come on you have to go about two weeks without eating and you get weak and there's immense pain, nobody's going through with that. I always figured it was a good way to get them to cool out and maybe even lose some weight. Hell if someone made it three days without eating I'd be very surprised.

One time I was telling someone about swallowing some Drano and I got like two weeks in the slammer.. hah. Somehow I had managed to repress all the memories of how often I got hit by the ban hammer. lol

Yep! Born and raised here. Haven’t seen a good snow in quite a few years though!
When I was a kid we measured snow in feet rather than inches. 😄

That’s true! But I’d rather have heavy weather than off and on nothings that are just inconvenient and don’t come with the pleasure the crazy stuff gets. 😛

The other day when I was reading the loooooong post I noticed that Cait quit posting when pasta iguhasta went on her mission. It was the beginning of the end for her.

I didn’t know they were that close! I’ll tell her Hasta is back. Maybe she’ll make an appearance. 😄

Other than the troll issue, which was addressed, I don't really care and prob won't vote.

I have only posted/replied anon a handful of times on the OH way back when. Once was to tell a suicide poster to get over it, basically. I know it was very mean and horrible of me, but DAFT PUCK discovered "me" and gave me a warning :)Additionally, I don't spend any time trying to decipher the anons. I don't have time for that and don't care too much about who it is that decides that they need to post anon for whatever reason. I will say that sometimes I give anon posts less consideration, though. Not in a mean way (except the one time mentioned already), but in a way that I breeze past them and move on to posts that aren't anon; or I reply briefly without giving a whole lot of thought to my replies....

To clarify: not that I don't care about the PERSON. It's that I don't care to figure out WHO it is

@PepperJ - I think you meant to be posting that on this post?
https://help-qa.com/posts/515-help-qa-feature-p...

@HastaIguanaPianoman - I can't speak for her. I think she's living alone right now, but we honestly don't speak as much as we once did. I think she's doing alright for the most part, but I would have thought she would come back to see everybody by now. 😅

Haha...yes :)

Perhaps that's all the more reason to check up on her...

That's really cool. Looking back at how you felt about your husband when you first met him. Better not let him see it Pasta!