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rholliday aka Richard Holliday is a 28.6 year old boy, has been a member since November 20, 2005, has scored 8158 submissions, giving an average score of 2.28.
  May 18 '06 by rholliday        82 Comments        Watch this      Share:  Share on facebook    Share on delicious    Share on digg    Share on MySpace    Tweet this    Stumble this    Share this on Kaboodle   

Please Note:

Google's cache has now updated itself since the disaster, so this procedure will most likely no longer work for many entire profiles. You can still submit any URLs you can locate to get the comments back. Also, individual blogs may show up in your search for your profile, or if you know or can locate the title of the old blog, you might be able to find the Google cache of it. There's a better chance that it will not have updated. For example.

I'll try to help in any way, just let me know.

Original Post:


I was pretty sure everyone was aware of the procedure for this issue by now, but since people keep asking, here's what you do if you want to recover an old blog:

  1. Google 'site:threadless.com your_name' like so.

  2. Click on "Cached." You will get a page that looks sort of like this. It should have most* of the missing blogs.

  3. Go to this page and submit the URL of the blog entries you want. You get this by right clicking on the blog title link and doing "Copy Shortcut" in Internet Explorer or "Copy Link Location" in Firefox.

  4. Threadless' nifty auto-parser will restore the link in your profile along with the comments. However the actual blog will only say "This post has been removed by the robots. Beware."
    This is expected, do not panic.

  5. To get the blog text and pictures back, we'll use your cached profile again. Simply copy and paste the text or do a "View Source" to get the HTML code and picture links.


Note: Some very recent blogs may not have been spidered by Google yet. If yours isn't there, I'm very sorry. :(

And there you go. The dates will all be today, but we can live with that. And the chronological order might be wonky (thanks for the swell word phones). Cry me a river. At least you can get something back. Praise Threadless and Google!

Oh, by the way, if you copy the HTML remove all the '<br>' tags as Threadless adds their own for line returns. The easiest way is to paste it into Notepad and do Edit -> Replace, and find <br> and replace it with nothing.


Feel free to bump this or link it for the people who continue to panic through the next few days.
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spacesick
   spacesick on May 18 '06 at 11:29pm
you're a good kid. that's awful nice of you to help out these little scamps.

don't change - stay cool!
radiostaticstar
radiostaticstar on May 18 '06 at 11:30pm
i was wondering how long it take for the instructions to be posted...
maddingo
maddingo on May 18 '06 at 11:31pm
Personally I think they should just leave it.... either you have a disaster recovery plan or you don't..

Honestly I don't really think they should bother with teh ad-hoc blog recovery...

while your tips are indeed good and all... I honestly don't see why people would really want to bother... pretty much if your blog gets back a couple pages it's pretty much done anyway.
rholliday
rholliday on May 18 '06 at 11:32pm
Well, I would have done so earlier, but I figured people would read the news blog and its comments.

But then I remembered this is Threadless, no one reads comments. Or other blogs. They just post a new one with the same questions. :)
spacesick
   spacesick on May 18 '06 at 11:33pm
aww!

old man dingo heard us playing on his lawn again and now he won't give us back our kickball!
PinkSabbath
PinkSabbath on May 18 '06 at 11:33pm
Just like the white winged dove...
Sings a song...
Sounds like she's singing...
Whoo... whoo... whoo...
Just like the white winged dove...
Sings a song...
Sounds like she's singing...
Ooo baby... ooo... said ooo

And the days go by...
Like a strand in the wind...
In the web that is my own...
I begin again
Said to my friend, baby...
Nothin' else mattered

He was no more... than a baby then
Well he... seemed broken hearted...
Something within him
But the moment... that I first laid...
Eyes... on... him... all alone...
On the edge of... seventeen

Just like the white winged dove...
Sings a song...
Sounds like she's singing...
ooo baby... ooo... said ooo...
Just like the white winged dove...
Sings a song...
Sounds like she's singing...
Ooo baby... ooo... said ooo

I went today... maybe I will go again...
Tomorrow
And the music there it was hauntingly...
Familiar
And I see you doing...
What I try to do for me
With the words from a poet...
And the voice from a choir
And a melody... nothing else mattered

Just like the white winged dove...
Sings a song...
Sounds like she's singing...
ooo baby... ooo... said ooo
Just like the white winged dove...
Sings a song...
Sounds like she's singing...
Ooo baby... ooo... said ooo

The clouds... never expect it...
When it rains
But the sea changes colours...
But the sea...
Does not change
And so... with the slow... graceful flow...
Of age
I went forth... with an age old...
Desire... to please
On the edge of... seventeen

Just like the white winged dove...
Sings a song...
Sounds like she's singing...
Ooo baby... ooo... said ooo
Just like the white winged dove...
Sings a song...
Sounds like she's singing...
Ooo baby... ooo... said ooo

Well then suddenly...
There was no one... left standing
In the hall... yeah yeah...
In a flood of tears
That no one really ever heard fall at all
Oh I went searchin' for an answer...
Up the stairs... and down the hall
Not to find an answer...
Just to hear the call
Of a nightbird... singing...
Come away... come away...

Just like the white winged dove...
Sings a song
Sounds like she's singing...
Ooo... baby ooo... said ooo
Just like the white winged dove...
Sings a song...
Sounds like she's singing...
Ooo... baby ooo... said ooo

Well I hear you in the morning...
And I hear you...
At nightfall...
Sometime to be near you...
Is to be unable... to hear you...
My love...
I'm a few years older than you...

Just like the white winged dove...
Sings a song...
Sounds like she's singing...
Ooo baby... ooo... said ooo
PinkSabbath
PinkSabbath on May 18 '06 at 11:33pm
that pretty much sums up the feelings of this situation.

give it up for ms nicks.
maddingo
maddingo on May 18 '06 at 11:34pm
space.... get the fuck off my yard =p
rholliday
rholliday on May 18 '06 at 11:34pm
Well maddingo, all they're doing is taking urls, parsing the profile id, name, post if, and title from them, then adding back the links. Since the comment data is persistent, it's not a big deal, and I doubt anyone has spent too much time working on this side of it.

As to why, it's a customer satisfaction appeasement move. If you can bang out a script that might help the users accept the change a little easier, you do. We all do it in IT every day. :)
spacesick
   spacesick on May 18 '06 at 11:34pm
*flip off*
spacesick
   spacesick on May 18 '06 at 11:34pm
teehee
Amelia84
Amelia84 on May 18 '06 at 11:57pm
rholliday> has anyone ever told you you look a little like silent bob?
rholliday
rholliday on May 19 '06 at 12:04am
No Amelia, they haven't. I suppose that could possibly be a compliment ... though I'm not QUITE as short and fat as Kevin Smith. I'm no stud, though, that's for sure. :)
Amelia84
Amelia84 on May 19 '06 at 12:07am
hehe don't worry i didn't mean it as a bad thing ;) i think it's just the beard
rholliday
rholliday on May 19 '06 at 12:40am
Well, that's good then. :)

Okay, think it's time for some WoW.
rholliday
rholliday on May 19 '06 at 2:24am
Man, people are STILL flipping out about this.

So bump.
realslimnatey
realslimnatey on May 19 '06 at 2:30am
hey, you ever get fucked by a fatman in a trenchcoat!?
realslimnatey
realslimnatey on May 19 '06 at 2:31am
gnight richard!

and yeah, to me, you are a stud...
now i shall have pleasant creams, i mean, dreams
radiostaticstar
radiostaticstar on May 19 '06 at 2:31am
hahaha..!

shit, i nearly peed...
stingerstyler
   stingerstyler on May 19 '06 at 3:53am
Good blog - but not all the stuff added is in google cache by the way (some parts are missing)
spacesick
   spacesick on May 19 '06 at 3:55am
hey mods, make this a sticky!

I'd do it myself but all the skinemax porn ended hours ago.
Bramish
   Bramish on May 19 '06 at 3:57am
I'll give this a go to recover my favourites.

Cheers.
jublin
   jublin on May 19 '06 at 3:57am
wow this is cool... you NERD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
rholliday
rholliday on May 19 '06 at 3:59am
Yeah singerstyler, nothing's perfect. There's a caveat up there. But I think the majority should be there. If not, there's always peoples' own bookmarks.
FlyingSpaghettiMonster
FlyingSpaghettiMonster on May 19 '06 at 4:10am
All hail the mighty google time machine!
staffell
staffell on May 19 '06 at 4:12am
arrg
rholliday
rholliday on May 19 '06 at 4:41am
Well, sorry if it didn't work out to your expectations staffell. I tried my best.

But now it's time for bed, as I've been up roughly 21 hours, and need to be up in 4.
radiostaticstar
radiostaticstar on May 19 '06 at 6:48am
bump'd
Amelia84
Amelia84 on May 19 '06 at 9:08am
bump'd again
realslimnatey
realslimnatey on May 19 '06 at 9:40am
man, i cant find this blog i posted yesterday in the afternoon about steve urkel! dammit, i had a hot chicks phone number on there too!
stingerstyler
   stingerstyler on May 19 '06 at 9:41am
Bump!
staffell
staffell on May 19 '06 at 9:44am
bump!
staffell
staffell on May 19 '06 at 9:44am
it's like recovering from a battle
rholliday
rholliday on May 19 '06 at 10:21am
Wow, you guys really did bump this!

And Nate, the blog text is lost, but I'm sure you had all the pictures saved, anyway. Here are the comments, though:
http://www.threadless.com/profile/222140/realslimnatey/45790/All_for_the_love_of_Laura
realslimnatey
realslimnatey on May 19 '06 at 10:24am
HA! thanks richard, i just wanted to bump your blog w/o using the word bump
rholliday
rholliday on May 19 '06 at 10:36am
You're such a trooper.
fc gravy
fc gravy on May 19 '06 at 11:32am
slam dunk the bump!
(just for the hell of it)
squeegebeckenheim
squeegebeckenheim on May 19 '06 at 1:13pm
thanks rich! i was able to get back all but one of my blogs i wanted so far!
realslimnatey
realslimnatey on May 19 '06 at 1:25pm
you can bump this in your brougham!
ieatbrains.com
ieatbrains.com on May 19 '06 at 3:27pm
thanks!
realslimnatey
realslimnatey on May 19 '06 at 3:29pm
hey rich, we both have that rock howto shirt, lets come up with a photo session for it!
rholliday
rholliday on May 19 '06 at 5:00pm
realslimnatey, at 1:25pm on May 19, 2006
you can bump this in your brougham!

Just had lunch. I was rollin' in my Brougham whilst bumping the latest Snoop Dogg.


realslimnatey, at 3:29pm on May 19, 2006
hey rich, we both have that rock howto shirt, lets come up with a photo session for it!

Well, first I think I need to teach you how to rock. Or maybe that can be the shoot itself. How appropriate!
Stiffy42j
Stiffy42j on May 19 '06 at 5:04pm
hey rholli I need your help
zimfreak
zimfreak on May 19 '06 at 5:06pm
This sounds like lots of work!
Stiffy42j
Stiffy42j on May 19 '06 at 5:08pm
where you at homey
Amelia84
Amelia84 on May 19 '06 at 5:10pm
he's ignoring you
rholliday
rholliday on May 19 '06 at 5:28pm
Stiffmeister! Long time no see!

Your sushi comments are here:
http://www.threadless.com/profile/251934/Stiffy42j/39173/I_TRIPLE_DOG_DARE_Threadless_to_print_this

Your snazzy blog entry is here:
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:0nbVY_NBXyEJ:www.threadless.com/profile/251934/Stiffy42j/39173/

You need to bring that shit back, it was phat!


Now what can I help you with? :)
cunning47
cunning47 on May 19 '06 at 5:29pm
bump
staffell
staffell on May 19 '06 at 5:31pm
bump
rholliday
rholliday on May 19 '06 at 5:41pm
Now where did Stiffy go?

We're like two trains passing in the night ...

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