Where is the EPO user forum?

[xplusyi]

Several year ago, I've visited the forum for EPO developers.

However, I cannot visit now.
Was the forum still there? Or, any alternatives?

Dead Link to EPO Forum:

http://forums.epo.org/open-patent-services-and-publication-server-web-service/

[amotl]

Oh, it's gone? We thought only the U.S. would currently be tearing down databases and services. I wanted to say "let's hope it's only intermittent", but apparently, the forum was turned off in January this year already?

-- https://web.archive.org/web/20250000000000*/forums.epo.org

NB: Because this is not an issue for this project, we are converting this into a discussion.

[amotl]

Maybe they needed to shut the forum down because of details related to the proliferation of AI scraper bots?

[amotl]

It would be sweet to bring the content back on a different stage again, for archival / knowledgebase reasons. Maybe it is possible to scrape archive.org for that purpose, and possibly slot the content back into a Discourse forum.

[amotl]

Unfortunately, we are not able to retrieve any individual threads.

Examples:

• https://web.archive.org/web/20250120035903/https://forums.epo.org/ops-and-upp-upc-relevant-information-12909
• https://web.archive.org/web/20250120035903/https://forums.epo.org/important-announcement-closure-of-the-discussion-forum-on-31-january-13652