nota posted:

Thanks a lot for the run down !
It makes me pretty sad that the actions of one lovely person may result in the end of the forums, I hope something can be done to avoid this.

For windows user looking to archive their favorite threads, I made a wget script.
First you'll need to get wget and run it from the folder you want your thread saved to (each page will be a file so one folder per thread).
Here's a tuto I found : https://builtvisible.com/download-your-website-with-wget/
Here's the command line script :

FOR /L %G IN (A,1,B) DO wget --html-extension -np https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=1111111^&userid=0^&perpage=40^&pagenumber=%G

In (A,1,B), A is the first page you want to save and B the last (1 is the increment).
Just edit the threadid with the one you want to save, you can also edit the number of posts per page.
Sadly I could'n't figure out how to make the page links work since they contain a question mark (if you can batch edit the html to replace it with an @ the links should work).
This won't log you in but there are ways to add cookie data to wget.

EDIT : To add cookies just put the site's cookies.txt in the folder you're using for wget (there are extensions to extract cookies from websites) and use the following command (don't forget to edit the relevant fields) :

FOR /L %G IN (A,1,B) DO wget --load-cookies=cookies.txt --html-extension -np https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=1111111^&userid=0^&perpage=40^&pagenumber=%G