About this archive
A fan-made, non-commercial history project: how the adelaidemassive.com forums were rebuilt, and what could not be recovered.
Sources
- Internet Archive (Wayback Machine) and the Australian Web Archive: every capture of the site from 2003 to 2026 was listed, and the forum pages, images and the old static site were downloaded.
- Common Crawl: a handful of forum pages and many later website pages that neither of the other archives kept.
- Printer-friendly copies of SMF threads recovered 22,166 posts whose normal pages were never captured, and the original board's front-page news recovered 288 opening posts.
- Images linked from posts were looked up in the archives wherever they were hosted; 6,854 are shown here, copied unchanged from the archived originals.
What survives, board by board
The SMF board (2007–2014)
| Board | Threads | Posts survive | Posts known | % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Random Banter | 166 | 40,954 | 59,666 | 69% |
| Entertainment | 107 | 23,050 | 54,159 | 43% |
| Fun + Games | 43 | 19,877 | 28,731 | 69% |
| Soap Box | 125 | 14,426 | 20,006 | 72% |
| Dancefloor | 253 | 11,536 | 15,728 | 73% |
| Past Events | 351 | 13,096 | 15,191 | 86% |
| Technical + Classifieds | 240 | 5,957 | 7,136 | 83% |
| Upcoming Events - DnB | 77 | 3,531 | 5,435 | 65% |
| DnB Downloads | 414 | 3,262 | 4,045 | 81% |
| Radio Shows | 81 | 1,925 | 2,013 | 96% |
| Upcoming Events - Other | 54 | 1,485 | 1,491 | 100% |
| Site News + Feedback | 42 | 1,216 | 1,250 | 97% |
| Other Downloads | 236 | 881 | 885 | 100% |
| Dubstep Downloads | 169 | 732 | 733 | 100% |
| New Release/Agency News | 174 | 636 | 637 | 100% |
| AM::Audio | 17 | 332 | 332 | 100% |
| AM:Digital | 6 | 138 | 195 | 71% |
| Hall Of Fame/Shame | 1 | 176 | 176 | 100% |
| Important!! | 5 | 31 | 31 | 100% |
| AM Audio | 3 | 17 | 17 | 100% |
The original board (2003–2007)
| Board | Threads | Posts survive | Posts known | % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chill Room | 50 | 2,409 | 80,260 | 3% |
| What's Gonna Be On | 64 | 1,635 | 8,908 | 18% |
| Soap Box | 32 | 982 | 8,616 | 11% |
| Board unknown | 197 | 197 | 8,003 | 2% |
| What's Already Been On | 66 | 1,446 | 7,565 | 19% |
| Dancefloor | 36 | 632 | 5,347 | 12% |
| Tunes, Technical + Classifieds | 33 | 598 | 3,373 | 18% |
| What's Already Been On | 4 | 120 | 274 | 44% |
| AM Audio | 5 | 35 | 233 | 15% |
| Site News + Feedback | 5 | 59 | 95 | 62% |
| What's Gonna Be On | 1 | 8 | 39 | 21% |
| Announcements | 5 | 6 | 6 | 100% |
Privacy
Email addresses and phone numbers are removed from posts, titles and names. Profile links and private-message links are removed. Pages that were only visible to logged-in members were never captured and are not here. To ask for something to be removed, see takedown.