Zoophiles Forum (ZF) has now closed down -- does this mean that all the data from that site is now lost? Is there any shareable online backup or archive of the contents of Zoophiles Forum (on a cloud for example)? It would be such a shame if all the information from that site (9 years worth of information) were lost forever.
One of the administrators of ZF said he made a backup of the site -- is that backup available for download online?
The Wayback Machine site is useless for looking at Zoophiles Forum, because it only brings up the login screen and nothing else.
I know there is a Telegram group related to ZF, but when one tries to login to Telegram it asks them for their phone number, and if they gave their real phone number it would ruin their anonymity. Are there any online groups (other then Telegram) consisting of ZF refugees?
I agree, but I'm unfortunately not in a position to do anything about it.
No. It's a full backup of the site, and contains a lot of sensitive information (like IP addresses, private messages, and forum staff communications).
Get a "burner" phone and use that phone number to sign up. You only need the number once, to receive an SMS, and other Telegram users can't see your phone number unless they already had your number in their address book.
(I've also heard there are some online services to get a temporary cell phone number. I haven't used them, though, so I don't know how well they work.)
What about all those threads on ZF that had valuable information that I didn't have a chance to read? I was going to copy/paste the writing from them, but by the time I got started it was too late and I couldn't connect to ZF anymore.
As for the backup having sensitive information such as IP Addresses, maybe any existing backups could be modified to include only information that was publicly accessible at the time ZF went down, such as the writing on the threads. As I said, it's really bad that 9 years of information has now been suddenly lost, and no one appears to have made a backup of it. (Except for one of the administrators).
I've seen hit and mis on some of those. It seems Telegram and other services will reject some of them.
just tested... it DOES work with websites like textnow.com and smsreceivefree.com ...
Good to know.
A lot of former ZF members have gone to the zoophiles pictures forum (porn and discussion forums) or my ZooWG forum (no porn except written and a mating/ genitalia section, discussion forums and writers/ artists forums). Some have joined the telegram group, using throw-away phone numbers is best.
I don't know of any other good places that refugees are going.
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I can recomend ZooWG.net
Does ZooWG have exact copies of the various threads that were on ZF? (That's what I'm looking for).
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No. I don't think anyplace does.
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just for the record... i originally tried using a site like smsreceivefree.com and textnow.com to set up a telegram account and it didn't seem to work .. but i just wasn't doing it right. i know now that it DOES work. recommended to use in conjunction with 10minutemail.com so you have both an email address and phone number that are not tied to anything real (because you need an email address for textnow.com and smsreceivefree.com).