ARTICLE: Soap Central Acquired By India-Based Absolute Sports For $1.4 Million, Founder Dan Kroll to Exit

[BoldRestless]

Thanks so much! HTTTrack is already having trouble saving the GH page to my computer so this is invaluable. Looks like 2023 and 2024 are not archived but haven't checked all pages. I'm very surprised that all the soaps haven't been archived in the wayback machine, so thank you for your invaluable efforts! May I ask what the process is? Do you use the wayback browser extension?

[JWDrama1980]

I just opened the links in the wayback machine to see if they have been archived. I saved it that way if it hasn't been saved. However, I sometimes used the extension. 

I finished up As The Word Turns yesterday, started on All My Children (just finished  up to 1996). 

 

[Errol]

So, anything y'all think might be worth saving, you better try and get it while you can, particularly the canceled soaps. Doesn't look like the new website will house any older content beyond the four current soaps and the aforementioned four British soaps.

[Maxim]

Thank you for this heads up, Errol! 

Start saving, guys! There's not much time left. 

[Errol]

It also looks like the message boards are either gone completely, or they are converting it to a different platform. Either way, it doesn't work right now.

[dragonflies]

They seem to be working off an on. I think they're done TBH

[Liberty City]

omg nooooooo

[Maxim]

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[Manny]

Do we know if there is any deadline when they are launching the new version of the site?? This is sad...

[Maxim]

That psycho admin shouldn't have edited my post months ago.  I put a curse on that forum right then and there.

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Joking, just joking. 

But yes, I hope the world's most toxic board  is FINALLY OVER!

[Errol]

The earliest I've heard is this week. Could be later. Just depends.

[Manny]

Thanks for the info, Errol!

Wow... so fast... really sad. I have never visited the message board, so don't really care about that, but I have been visiting SC a lot for old episode recaps and character information. Now it will all be gone

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[JWDrama1980]

I just finished One Life To Live.

I have either confirmed or saved the Daily Recaps for all the canceled soaps that was on the site (there were broken links that could not be saved but mostly from One Life to Live).  I just finished One Life To Live.

Update: Completed all of The Young & The Restless + The Bold & The Beautiful 90's Recaps. 

Another World

Sunset Beach

Passions

Port Charles

Guiding Light

As The World Turns

All My Children

One Life To Live

Interesting side notes:

*Passions was the only canceled soap that had all their daily recaps previous saved. 

*Guiding Light and As the World Turns seemed to had the least saved.

*Recaps from the 1990's were almost never saved from all the soaps. 

 

Edited August 7, 2024 by JWDrama1980

[Kristin]

They have a lot of overly restrictive rules on the boards. Sometimes to the point of ridiculousness! But I still would hate to see it go it’s been around a long time!!

[JWDrama1980]

Update: Days of Our Lives 90's  daily recaps have been either confirmed or saved

General Hospital 90's daily recaps have been all saved under their new web address. 

General Hospital is the only soap that has the new updated design as of today.  The yearly recap webpages have not been updated with the new design but the daily recaps pages have been updated with new design and have brand new webpage address.

This is causing a problem with the Internet Archived. Within Internet Archived, any daily recaps that were not previous saved with the old web address is currently not linking to the new web address making it appeared those recaps were not saved.

Unfortunately as of right now, the only way in the future to see the newly saved daily recaps within Internet Archive is changing the dates at the end of the web address. 

For example; 

For January 04, 1999 -

https://web.archive.org/web/20240807204513/https://www.soapcentral.com/general-hospital/general-hospital-weekly-recap-for-990104

For January 11, 1999 - https://web.archive.org/web/20240807204505/https://www.soapcentral.com/general-hospital/general-hospital-weekly-recap-for-990111

In other words, you might just want to use HTTTrack or saved pages that you want to keep.