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breakcore.com.au — first archive version live

2026-06-23

The old breakcore.com.au board died with the Sakura host. I pulled what I could from recovery dumps and rebuilt it as a static archive instead of trying to resurrect phpBB on a box I do not control anymore.

What shipped today

• **Live:** breakcore.com.au — read-only archive of forums, threads, flyers, and embeds from the phpBB export. Member avatars where the recovery still had files; coloured initials for everyone else. Search works across the recovered posts.
• **Beta:** beta.breakcore.com.au — same archive skin for now, but this lane is where the actual forum rebuild will land. Logins, replies, and new posts are not ready. I am building it slowly between everything else.

The live site is intentionally honest about what it is: **ARCHIVE / PRE-REBUILD** banners on posts, no pretend write access. If you have a flyer or thread that never made it into the dump, ping me on Discord or aday@aday.net.au.

Under the hood (short)

• Import pipeline from Sakura TSV + attachment recovery into SQLite, then static JSON for Cloudflare Pages.
• Link and embed repair pass on malformed phpBB HTML (escaped URLs, broken CODE blocks, bandcamp/youtube/soundcloud embeds).
• Artist carousel and an A/B deck player on the homepage — soundcloud, bandcamp embeds, youtube, mixcloud links scraped from the archive.

Repos: breakcore-com-au (live), breakcore-forums-placeholder (beta lane).

What is not done

Beta is under construction. Login gating, new threads, and a proper post editor are still on the list. Do not expect the beta URL to move fast — it will inch forward when I have a free evening, same as every other long-haul project on this domain graph.