Relevant and new from Techlore (updates for 2026):
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The Closed Network privacy podcast has a forum, too.
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Hmm, there’s no much going on there…
Looks like theres only 37 users. If anything, this is reason to join the forum, not avoid it.
So I found this:
And this:
But I don’t really understand what this means. Is it all archived? With all the posts and comments? Can I browse and read it?
Looks like a wayback machine yes: https://archive.org/
Pretty much people making backups of the public forum while it’s still up so that it could be read in future. You can save any page into an .html file and open it on your machine, that’s what they’re doing.
iirc you cant just save a discourse forum page because it wont save the collapsed comments, but idk how to find saved pages from the forum to see if they found a way
There are definitely tools for that kind of thing.
The data is in the DOM anyway, it can be fetched either by having an API call to the backend or unwrapped by CSS, no dark magic to backup a public forum especially as popular as Discourse. 
Frequently the non-JavaScript version of the page would be downloaded, so you’d have archived pages like this:
I’m not sure how to access that specific archive, but I do know of at least one archive of Techlore’s forum that’s already been made lol
Nowadays with Puppeteer/Playwright, we can also take full screenshots of pages in an efficient-ish way preserving the styles/images.
Come on guys, everyone who was at Techlore forum (I was not), just look through all your posts and take every single URL from every single helpful conversation, go to Wayback Machine , paste your URL there and look how it‘s then archived publicly for all time 
We can do it! Let‘s preserve gained knowledge!
Someone can use OpenClaw to automate the preservation of forum ez
