Some of this the club wrote down at the time. Most of it we went and found.
Four channels the club no longer uses turned out to still be readable: a website that Google deleted, a Google Group with four years of weekly meeting notices, a deleted Douban site whose photographs were still sitting on Douban’s servers, and a Facebook page nobody had logged into since 2022. Between them they name the founder, date the meetings, list the officers and place every move the club has made.
The fifth channel is the one the club still uses. Eleven years of WeChat posts, written the week they describe, cover the years none of the others reach.
What follows is all of it, with the sources attached. Where a source contradicts another, both are shown and neither is picked.
Eleven Years of Posts
The club's own WeChat account, where somebody wrote up the meeting most weeks for eleven years. It is the only record of the stretch between 2015 and 2019, and it is where two hundred and nineteen meeting pages on this site came from.
Every Post, and Where It Went
A contents list for the whole account, in order, each post linked to the original and to whatever it became on this site. It is also the audit: the ones that led nowhere say so, and why.
Things the Club Wrote
Not every post was about a Tuesday. Guides for people thinking of joining, essays the club wrote about itself, four newsletters and a stack of notices. The guide on how to join was rewritten nine times in three years, and the versions disagree.
Four Years of Tuesdays
The club ran on a Google Group for four years. Every file ever attached to it came back, including ninety printed agendas, which is why sixty meeting pages now say who ran the evening and what was spoken about.
The Douban archive
The club kept a Douban site until it stopped being updated in 2019, and it was deleted some time after 2021. The pages survive in the Internet Archive; the photographs were pulled back off Douban's image servers, which outlived the page they belonged to.
The First Website
The club ran its own site on Google Sites before it ran a mailing list. Google shut classic Sites down and took it with them; one Internet Archive capture survived. It names the founder, the first president, the room in Luohu and the reason the club used to meet only twice a month.