# Could someone help me access this forum post?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-someone-help-me-access-this-forum-post/602538>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 10, 2011, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-someone-help-me-access-this-forum-post/602538 "2011-11-10T21:28:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2011, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-someone-help-me-access-this-forum-post/602538/1 "2011-11-10T21:28:39Z")

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I’m having an issue with the game Stalker: Call of Pripyat, and as luck would have it, the _one_ forum post, on the Steam forums, addressing my issue, is currently inaccessible because the Steam forum is “closed for maintenance.”

The link is here:

[http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1748238](http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1748238)

Isn’t there a site called Board Reader that lets you read things even if the board is down? I tried using it, but it yielded nothing.

THANKS in advance for anyone who can solve this.

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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2011, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-someone-help-me-access-this-forum-post/602538/2 "2011-11-10T21:51:05Z")

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When a board is down, it’s _down_. Unless someone is personally hacking the computer that information currently rests in, you are just going to have to wait, unless someone, somewhere, took a snapshot of that particular page and makes it available.

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**Author:** ![douglasI](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8dc957/32.png) [@douglasI](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/douglasI)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2011, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-someone-help-me-access-this-forum-post/602538/3 "2011-11-10T21:56:08Z")

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Google has cached said page

[http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:BpaqCY6OMh4J:forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php%3Ft%3D1748238+%22http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php%3Ft%3D1748238%22&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca](http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:BpaqCY6OMh4J:forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php%3Ft%3D1748238+%22http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php%3Ft%3D1748238%22&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca)