What survives and what is missing

raveadelaide was one board (Invision Power Board) at three addresses: raveadelaide.net/forums (2003–05), raveadelaide.com.au/forums (2005–06) and raveadelaide.com.au/forum (2006–08). The server began answering "400" errors in August 2008 and never came back.

Share of the board's posts that survive: 6.3%.

The board's own totals over time

Board by board

"Board's own count" is the topic and reply count the board index showed at its last capture.

Boards that are known by name but have no surviving posts: Articles, Forums, Other.

Surviving posts by the year they were written

Biggest gaps (topic, posts survive / posts the board counted)

• T.W.A.T (Shoot The Breeze): 467 / 58,543
• Don't you hate... (Shoot The Breeze): 990 / 55,658
• Don't you love it when... (Shoot The Breeze): 915 / 38,757
• I am... (Shoot The Breeze): 511 / 37,470
• Ask RaveAdelaide... (Shoot The Breeze): 462 / 32,802
• MWAH the thread (Shoot The Breeze): 417 / 29,344
• Attracted to the poster above you? (Shoot The Breeze): 355 / 22,628
• What are you listening to right now? (Music & Production): 369 / 17,263
• rate the previous person's avatar (Shoot The Breeze): 479 / 12,232
• I have... (Shoot The Breeze): 637 / 11,977
• the song tag game! (Shoot The Breeze): 275 / 7,986
• The World Football Thread (Insight): 267 / 7,662
• Random Image Thread (Shoot The Breeze): 380 / 7,766
• Team Systo (Shoot The Breeze): 259 / 7,644
• RA Official AFL Footy Tipping Competition 2006 (Insight): 531 / 6,206
• Happy Birthday to U! (Shoot The Breeze): 412 / 5,477
• Official Enchanted 2004 Thread (Past Events): 176 / 5,117
• Enchanted 2005 - December 3 (Past Events): 33 / 4,788
• The BIG UP thread! (Shoot The Breeze): 330 / 4,124
• Movies (Insight): 297 / 3,841
• What do you look like!?!? (Shoot The Breeze): 192 / 3,642
• I wish... (Shoot The Breeze): 261 / 3,529
• Wed nights @ The Cumby (Upcoming Events): 502 / 3,767
• Winter Enchanted 2005 @ Skate FX (Past Events): 238 / 3,353
• The RA Fitness Centre (Insight): 125 / 3,119

Gold mines: referenced but never captured

• The board's own attachments and uploads: 4,211 files that surviving posts show or link were never captured (1,582 attachment links, 1,422 files in the uploads folder, mostly picture attachments and their thumbnails). Attachments needed a login to open, so the crawlers rarely got them.
• Pictures on outside hosts: 634 images linked from surviving posts and pages are in no archive. 129 of them are from the event boards, the calendar or the site's own pages (likely flyers).

Other things that are gone:

• About 905,501 posts. The crawlers reached only a small part of a very busy board; the Lounge ("Shoot The Breeze") alone held more than half a million posts.
• Everything after August 2008. About 26,000 captures from August 2008 are one identical "400" error page: the crawler arrived as the server was failing.
• About 17,700 captures made with a broken link format (a literal & in the address). The board answered those with an error page instead of the thread.
• Members-only material: private messages, the members' profiles (never published here in any case), search results and the reply forms, which showed guests an error.
• The photo galleries. The Gallery albums (2003–05) and Gallery 2 (2006–08) held thousands of party photos; only a few hundred pictures and album pages were captured.
• The MKPortal front page's own sections (news, reviews, downloads): only a handful of pages survive.
• The Australian Web Archive adds little. Its 53,462 captures come from the same crawls the Internet Archive holds; 203 were not in the Internet Archive and gave 84 more files (29 thread pages, 3 printable copies, about 50 images). It had 4 of the outside pictures that are in no other archive.
• Common Crawl adds nothing. Its 2008-09 crawl holds three captures of the site from 2008, all already in the Internet Archive; its later crawls hold only the squatters' pages.
• Pages that failed to download: 117 outside images, 67 thread pages, 34 board listing pages, 4 other board pages, 4 images, 3 calendar event pages, 1 single-post page. The outside images were rejected because the archive holds a web page (an error or 'removed' notice) in place of the picture. Most of the forum pages are ones where the board itself answered 'moved or deleted' or 'no permission'; the rest are captures the archive lists but could not serve.

Media captured