A few weeks ago, I heard that Imgur would be going down soon, taking large swathes of the internet with it. Specifically, it will be deleting all anonymous image uploads on May 15th, littering the internet with broken links. In my case, I used Imgur myself to upload images for this log up until December 2020, when iguanamon recommended that I switch to Postimages.
In order to preserve my JPN log for posterity, I decided to reupload all the old Imgur images to Postimages before it goes down. I wrote a few lines of Javascript in the browser console to scrape all 118 pages of my log and find all the imgur links (as well as how many are on each page so I could find the posts to edit later).
The good news is that there were only 29 Imgur links. Even better, Postimages turns out to have a mass upload from URL option, so you can just paste a list of urls into the textbox and it will automatically download every url and upload them to Postimages, so I was able to upload all 29 images at once, and without having to manually download them myself first.
The mass upload tool also conveniently prints out a list of links to all the uploaded images afterward. Unfortunately, they are in a random order, rather than the original order, making that pretty much useless. Of course, I'd have to go through this thread and find each post with an Imgur link and edit in the corresponding Postimages link one by one anyway, but it would have been a bit easier if it had just printed out all the new links in order, rather than forcing me to hunt through the unordered 29 images for the right one for every single post.
Anyway, the whole process took about 40 minutes, and now my Japanese log is safe from the Imgurpocalypse (I wish the same could be said for early Reddit communities - RIP). It turns out I had only 27 Imgur uploads in my log - the other two were comments from other people, one from @devilyoudont and one from @ozymandias, so those are still going to disappear unless they edit their own posts.
vonPeterhof wrote:I actually tried to go and see the largest kofun in Sakai and yeah they're not really tourist attractions, at least not ones supposed to be visited in a traditional sense. You can read the information stands and look at the moats, gates and bridges, but the actual tombs are somewhat understandably off-limits, and from where you stand across the moats they don't really look like anything more impressive than heavily wooded hills. Luckily when I was standing there an older gentleman who was showing his son and grandkids around the city noticed me and told me that if I wanted to get a good view of all the kofuns I should get up to the observation deck on top of Sakai city hall. They even offered me a ride there, and the kofuns definitely looked much better from above.
Thanks for the explanation!