Recommended way to close and archive a Discourse forum itself?

[Nition]

So far this thread covers archiving other forums to start a Discourse forum, but is there a currently-recommended way to close and archive a Discourse forum itself? I have a Discourse forum that ideally I’d like to convert from a live forum that’s currently running on a Amazon instance, to a read-only HTML version that I can just have as pages on my basic web hosting.

Would HTTrack do the trick for Discourse?

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

That will be considerably tougher. You can of course make it read only right now via Admin, Backups.

We have talked about having a crawler-like read only HTML published version of a Discourse site but haven’t built that yet.

[Nition]

All good, thanks for the information anyway.

[cregox (caue rego)]

@codinghorror

We have talked about having a crawler-like read only HTML published version of a Discourse site but haven’t built that yet.

any update? I could really use such feature right now!

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

There is new info at

A basic Discourse archival tool

It seems that it’s pretty tricky to save an entire discourse site to a static version. According to this post by Jeff Atwood, it’s “much harder than you’d think”. It doesn’t appear that this is a priority for the Discourse team, either, which is perfectly understandable. For my purposes, though, I found that I really needed some way to generate basic, static HTML versions of my Discourse sites. I’ve been using Discourse for a couple of years now as a discussion board when teaching my college ma…