# zulm.net forums archive — completeness report Generated **2026-11-13T11:33:50Z** from the static files in this directory, the offline database dump, and the crawl manifest. ## Snapshot - **Source:** (public guest view) - **Capture date:** 12 November 2026 - **Original software:** phpBB 3.0.11, subsilver2 theme, UTF-8 - **Scope:** public content forums 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 13, plus categories 11 and 12 - **Method:** rendered HTML crawl, checked against the full database dump; live pagination and post anchors take precedence over stale DB counters ## Coverage | Item | Source database | Archive | | --- | ---: | ---: | | Public topics | 11,604 | 11,596 (99.9%) | | Public posts | 103,283 | 103,224 | | Post anchors on topic pages | — | 103,224 | | Forum/topic pages | — | 15,052 | | Category/forum listings | — | 240 | | Topic pages | — | 14,812 | | FAQ page | 1 | 1 | 11,596 of 11,604 approved public topics were captured. The remaining 8 (topics 12226, 13085, 13571, 13572, 13573, 13574, 13575, 13640) were still listed on the live board when the crawl began but returned 404 by the time they were fetched — deleted during or between capture — and were skipped; links to them are shown as plain text. ## Per-forum coverage | Forum | Type | Topics (DB) | Posts (DB) | Topic pages | Topics captured | Forum pages | | --- | --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | | General | forum | 6,762 | 64,435 | 8,804 | 6,761 | 137 | | Sell/Trade/Swap/Wanted | forum | 274 | 1,167 | 285 | 274 | 6 | | Retailer/Online shopping | forum | 625 | 4,181 | 712 | 624 | 13 | | Piracy | forum | 152 | 986 | 175 | 152 | 4 | | Site Suggestions & Bug Reports | forum | 144 | 720 | 151 | 144 | 3 | | Movie, TV, Music and Box-office | forum | 2,953 | 25,886 | 3,798 | 2,947 | 60 | | Bak Bak | forum | 320 | 1,606 | 351 | 320 | 7 | | Indian Media Forums | category | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | | Others | category | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | | High-Definition | forum | 374 | 4,302 | 536 | 374 | 8 | ## Crawl - **Pages queued:** 15,091 - **HTTP 200 captures:** 15,054 - **Succeeded:** 15,054 - **Skipped:** 37 - **Errors:** 0 - **Downloaded:** 520.2 MiB - **Capture window:** 2026-11-12T19:09:45Z to 2026-11-12T20:27:13Z - **Skipped pages:** `topic:10083:1` (404 on live board (deleted after DB dump)); `topic:10369:1` (404 on live board (deleted after DB dump)); `topic:10437:1` (404 on live board (deleted after DB dump)); `topic:10450:1` (404 on live board (deleted after DB dump)); `topic:10450:7` (404 on live board (deleted after DB dump)); `topic:10567:1` (404 on live board (deleted after DB dump)); `topic:10604:1` (404 on live board (deleted after DB dump)); `topic:10660:1` (404 on live board (deleted after DB dump)); `topic:10803:1` (404 on live board (deleted after DB dump)); `topic:11521:1` (404 on live board (deleted after DB dump)); `topic:11522:1` (404 on live board (deleted after DB dump)); `topic:11882:1` (404 on live board (deleted after DB dump)); `topic:12226:1` (404 on live board (deleted after DB dump)); `topic:13085:1` (404 on live board (deleted after DB dump)); `topic:13571:1` (404 on live board (deleted after DB dump)); `topic:13572:1` (404 on live board (deleted after DB dump)); `topic:13573:1` (404 on live board (deleted after DB dump)); `topic:13574:1` (404 on live board (deleted after DB dump)); `topic:13575:1` (404 on live board (deleted after DB dump)); `topic:13640:1` (404 on live board (deleted after DB dump)); `topic:2964:1` (404 on live board (deleted after DB dump)); `topic:3455:1` (404 on live board (deleted after DB dump)); `topic:4021:1` (404 on live board (deleted after DB dump)); `topic:4361:1` (404 on live board (deleted after DB dump)); `topic:4418:1` (404 on live board (deleted after DB dump)); `topic:6596:1` (404 on live board (deleted after DB dump)); `topic:7221:1` (404 on live board (deleted after DB dump)); `topic:7290:1` (404 on live board (deleted after DB dump)); `topic:7574:1` (404 on live board (deleted after DB dump)); `topic:7702:1` (404 on live board (deleted after DB dump)); `topic:8245:1` (404 on live board (deleted after DB dump)); `topic:8400:1` (404 on live board (deleted after DB dump)); `topic:8646:30` (beyond live page count); `topic:8906:1` (404 on live board (deleted after DB dump)); `topic:9173:1` (404 on live board (deleted after DB dump)); `topic:9754:1` (404 on live board (deleted after DB dump)); `topic:9800:1` (404 on live board (deleted after DB dump)) - **Error pages:** none Skipped pages are URLs the live board no longer serves: one stale DB page number (topic 8646 now ends at page 29), topics deleted while the crawl ran, and stale `last post` links to topics that had already been removed. Live availability is authoritative. ## Search index - Pagefind index present in `pagefind/`. - Language index(es): en. - Search requires an HTTP server; it does not work from `file://`. ## Old-link redirects - `redirects.json`: 11,596 topics, 103,224 posts, 10 forums. - `.htaccess` handles simple `viewforum.php?f=N` and `viewtopic.php?t=N` requests; `404.html` resolves `start` and `p` parameters in the browser. ## Missing local assets - **10,491 references** to **5,843 unique URLs** could not be satisfied from the file backup. - Reasons: local file not found (5,973), forum image not found (2,673), avatar file not found in backup (1,843), forum file not found (2). - Top hosts: `www.zulm.net` (8,605), `zulm.net` (1,886). - They remain absolute links to the original URLs rather than broken local paths. Live requests for sampled missing files also returned 404, so they cannot be recovered from the current server. - External image hosts seen (not downloaded): `i.ibb.co` (1,455), `i.imgur.com` (1,216), `img.photobucket.com` (598), `maxupload.com` (371), `i201.photobucket.com` (317), `www.btinternet.com` (293), `i.indiafm.com` (269), `homepage.ntlworld.com` (262), `216.247.121.93` (243), `www.indiafm.com` (187), `imagizer.imageshack.us` (185), `i54.photobucket.com` (181). ## Quality checks - HTML pages scanned: 15,057 - Internal links checked: 972,809 - Images checked: 486,290 - Broken local links: 0 - Missing post anchors: 0 - Live controls/forms/scripts left: 0 - Session IDs left: 0 - Private-forum links: 0 - Duplicate post anchors: 0 - Redirect entries with missing targets: 0 - Executable/server-side files: 0 ## Privacy and exclusions - The login-only **Private** forum (forum 10), private messages, member profiles, the member list, and all posting/login/search controls are excluded. - Email addresses, password hashes, IP addresses and other private database fields are not present; the raw database dump is not published. - Session IDs are removed from links and post text. - Attachments were disabled on the original board and none are present. Signatures were disabled. ## Files - **55,256 files**, **1.8 GiB** in total. - `index.html`, `f/`, `t/`, `faq/`, `search/`, `about/` — browseable archive - `styles/`, `images/` — original theme and board images - `redirects.json`, `404.html`, `.htaccess` — old-URL helpers - `pagefind/`, `pagefind.yml` — search index and rebuild configuration ## Reproduction ``` python tools/crawl.py --workers 2 --delay 0.25 python tools/rewrite.py --out archive --clean cd archive && npx --yes pagefind@1.6.0 python tools/check_archive.py --root archive python tools/report.py ``` The crawler is polite and resumable; it caches raw HTML under `work/raw` and records progress in `work/crawl.db`. Forum content belongs to its original authors. This archive is provided for preservation and research, with no claim of affiliation with zulm.net or phpBB.