All right. PPP4 is currently running. It is at the time of this writing finishing up the spidering of Technical Support (strictly speaking a highly useless task, since Tech Support never got purged, and thus all of the old topics are already in PPP3). It is approximately 18% done with the whole board. For now, PPP4 consists merely of making a complete re-archiving of all topics that currently exist. Since nearly a year and a half have passed since PPP3, quite a lot of new data comes in. Today, I made various fixes to the way eras are handled: The forum always displays the newest era that any topic was complete archived in. When this is done in a few weeks, I will modify the spider so that it can also check for topics that have been created or posted in since then. Once the bot catches up with the present and actually has fairly new data in real time, I will rework the newsfeed so that it gets its data from there. Ironically, I thought it would be easier to make the bot use the existing newsfeed. But the more I think about it, the more I realize that the Piperbot is far superior to the feed scraper, and the feed should end up using the PPP mirror for its data.