# Advice on archiving a site **URL:** \ **Category:** Community Building\ **Created:** [October 8, 2024, 3:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/advice-on-archiving-a-site/329893 "2024-10-08T15:56:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![jbrains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jbrains/32/208183_2.png) [@jbrains](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jbrains)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2024, 3:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/advice-on-archiving-a-site/329893/1 "2024-10-08T15:56:38Z")
I’m looking less for “how to” advice and more for strategy advice. I intend to retire comments from a blog. I’ve been using Discourse to provide comments for that blog. I have comments that I don’t want to lose, but I also don’t want to merely convert existing comments into static HTML to include alongside the posts. I have in mind to rewrite old posts, integrating content from the comments into the new versions, and to do this gradually. I infer that I want to archive the Discourse site, so that I can then serve it locally and browse it and grab content in an “as I need it” fashion to rewrite or edit a post. I’m curious whether anyone has any “better” suggestions for what to do in order to be able to mine these comments for content later. I’m leaving “better” up to your interpretation, because I’d like to take advantage of the creativity of the group. Please don’t ask me what kind of “better” I have in mind; I want your unfiltered ideas. 🙂 Many thanks. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/advice-on-archiving-a-site/329893)._