Experience from the official Shadowrun Forums (shadowruntabletop.com) has got me thinking of future protecting any threads I might be a part of (I'm thinking PbP games).

I've done a cursory search and can't find any built in tools to aid in this.

Did I miss something?

If I haven't. and it is reasonable to do so (I'm not asking for custom code or anything), could I request the feature be added? Or at least looked in to?

EDIT: Rather than start a new thread, I'll just piggyback this one:
If IRC is no longer supported, you might want to remove the "Chat" option in the top left menu bar.

These forums are backups up on a nightly basis.
It would require custom code to add a feature to export a thread.

That is all I needed to see.

It isn't that important.

And I didn't mean to suggest these forums weren't properly managed, just that the lack of management over there has me in the "backup, backup, backup" mentality.

Don't take my short reply as taking offense. The question is a valid one, especially given the issues on sites that were assumed "properly managed".

On the Original Post of whatever thread you want to export, go up to the top-right corner. Click "Options". Click "Download this Topic".

At least, that's how I've always done it.

Good catch. I replied so fast, I was thinking of "Export Thread" as the literal option, rather than the fact that topic/thread are used synonymously here.

Thank you!

That is exactly what I was looking for... But didn't see it hiding in the title bar for some reason.

In long threads, the option to download the topic (or to print it, same issue) stops after 300 posts, and omits everything after that. I suppose it's an option somewhere, would it be possible to fix that?

I would like to echo this request. I'd love to download my completed PbP game. I'm really happy with some of the writing, which I'd like to save.