Rants archive question.
By Scott Keith on 28 November 2023
Hi Scott,
First off, really appriciate all of the work you have put in over the
years and think the archive is a treasure trobe of reading and fun.
Am really enjoying reading the Observer Flashbacks. Have notest your
Blog Of Doom has archives going back quite a while when the archive
starts at the year 1994.
So, my question is are all of the other flashbacks there but am not
seeing them or, are they not part of it.
If not am not complaining because of the many other great things you
have written for us.
Also, sorry for my spelling.
New Flashback is coming tomorrow, so I figured I'd address this email today.
The archives actually have all the old Flashbacks, but the problem is that I'm a dumbass. When I was originally starting the project back in 2016, I was just doing them as one-off wacky posts directly in the blog editor and posting them that way. However, once they took off almost immediately, I should have started actually writing them in a Word document like literally everything else I do but for whatever reason stubbornly kept avoiding that and just did more and more elaborately written Flashbacks directly in the blog editor. So this meant that once I was finally ready to go back and collect everything, I had to essentially find a way to pull the posts off the website and save them in Word format. So the short version is that they're all in there, and they're the giant-sized documents titled “Wrestling Observer Flashbacks 2016 / 2017 / 2018”. After that point, I started doing them in Word and you get the actual ones divided up by year with 1994 and onwards.
The good news is that I'm slowly going through and doing the grunt work of copying the text from each week of Flashbacks in those compilations and splitting it into individual weeks, with the initial 1988 issues being my goal today. However, if anyone is interested in taking it upon themselves to do it instead of waiting for me to get motivated, I'd be happy to send out the original files. Or if you have access to the archives already and want the job, let me know. I can't promise much in terms of compensation but I can offer choice of a future rant and maybe a few bucks. I'm not sure what the status of the Flashbacks is on the current version of the site because I don't think I started adding the tags until later into the run, but it might be worth reposting them later as well and it's much easier if they're already broken up properly.