Understated Ur-Drakon Tyranicus Posted July 1, 2011 Share Posted July 1, 2011 I have made the decision to shut down nethergate.net at the end of next week. All subdomains, including the full version of Homeland, the very out-of-date BoA database, and SV will no longer be accessible after July 9, 2011. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Randomizer Posted July 1, 2011 Share Posted July 1, 2011 Why? I don't go there as much as I used to, but since Jeff hasn't been updating the official BoA database it still has scenarios that aren't listed here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice ex post slarto Posted July 1, 2011 Share Posted July 1, 2011 The end of an era. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Tyranicus Posted July 1, 2011 Author Share Posted July 1, 2011 Originally Posted By: Randomizer Why? I don't go there as much as I used to, but since Jeff hasn't been updating the official BoA database it still has scenarios that aren't listed here. Based on how little I use my webspace, I can no longer justify the cost. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dintiradan Posted July 1, 2011 Share Posted July 1, 2011 All good things come to an end, and no web community can last forever. I remember saying something similar when SV started dwindling, and when Logalot decided to close down www2.polarisboard.net. We had a good run while it lasted. Thank you, Tyran, for what you've done for the community. Seriously man, from the chat logs onward you've been doing stuff for the community. Good work. Would you be able to zip up the scenario database? Or the contents of the forum? I could try do it myself before the 7th, but it would probably be easier on your end. Then you could pass the archives around to a bunch of us. I'm not a compulsive archivist like Aran was or Slarty is, but there was some good stuff on SV, design-related and otherwise, that's worth saving. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice ex post slarto Posted July 1, 2011 Share Posted July 1, 2011 I'm not a compulsive archivist. Compulsive categorizer of archived material, maybe. And good god, please let those chat logs die. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Niemand Posted July 1, 2011 Share Posted July 1, 2011 I had an archive plan for the forums already set up, so no one else needs to rush to do so if they don't specifically want to. (Mind you, it won't do a nice job like something of Aran's, just spider the pages and scrape all of the HTML, omitting some URLs by pattern to keep redundancy down.) Originally Posted By: Dinti Thank you, Tyran, for what you've done for the community. Seriously man, from the chat logs onward you've been doing stuff for the community. Good work. Seconded. Thanks from me also, Tyran, for all that you contributed to the community. Originally Posted By: Slarty And good god, please let those chat logs die. I think that Tyranicus had the good sense to do this already. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Tyranicus Posted July 1, 2011 Author Share Posted July 1, 2011 The chat logs are long gone, Slarty. Niemand and I are currently discussing the feasibility of copying my site onto his webspace. The scenario database, music database, etc will be going up on his site. The forums will be closing, but we are discussing making a read-only archive of them, if such a thing is reasonably simple to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dintiradan Posted July 1, 2011 Share Posted July 1, 2011 (Just to clarify, I'm saying that the hosted chat logs were originally intended as a service to the community.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Randomizer Posted July 1, 2011 Share Posted July 1, 2011 The chat logs were interesting, yes that's the word, at least as a slice of life here. It is sad to see Nethergate go through the portal with all the other creatures into the great unknown. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Tyranicus Posted July 5, 2011 Author Share Posted July 5, 2011 The transfer is done. Even though I have closed my webspace account, the nethergate.net domain is still good. All the former domains are back up at their URLs, kindly hosted by Niemand. SV is now a read-only archive of old posts though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unflappable Drayk Lazarus. Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 Ahh well, it was good while it lasted. Thanks for footing the bill for as long as you did. I'm glad the scenario reviews were saved at least. I don't know how much people read them anymore but some of them came all the way from the lyceum and it'd be a shame to lose them. It's not like the spidweb board looks to be taking off anytime soon. Edit: Now my title is gone as well as my avatar? What a crock.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast VCH Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 Originally Posted By: Lazarus. Ahh well, it was good while it lasted. Thanks for footing the bill for as long as you did. I'm glad the scenario reviews were saved at least. I don't know how much people read them anymore but some of them came all the way from the lyceum and it'd be a shame to lose them. It's not like the spidweb board looks to be taking off anytime soon. Edit: Now my title is gone as well as my avatar? What a crock.... Yeah man, welcome to the club. I lost my avatar, then my title. I got the title back for a while but then it left again. I guess It's only a matter of time before all the custom titles are rounded up and deleted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Earth Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 somewhat topic: I dl'd A1-4 theme songs and gotta say that 1st trilogy had better themes than A4. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Balladeer Posted July 11, 2011 Share Posted July 11, 2011 *tips hat to Tyran* Having just footed the bill to keep TrueSite up and running for the next 3 years, I completely respect your decision. Your service has not gone unnoticed or unappreciated even if rarely verbalized. Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dintiradan Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 Just realized something funny. Somehow the forums are using relative timestamps based on when they were archived. Thus, Tyran's decision to shut down the forums will have been made yesterday for the rest of time. Oh well. At least Enalya got back in time to clarify what Lordi was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Niemand Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 Quote: Somehow the forums are using relative timestamps based on when they were archived. The 'somehow' is pretty simple: my script visited each page it could find on the forum (skipping some at my direction) and stored the HTML to a file on disk after correcting all internal links. Since it did so the day after Tyran's announcement, the announcement will forever have occurred yesterday. Which is, I agree, oddly poignant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk nikki. Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 Hey, erm, the boxes on the forums aren't working. Hopefully the contents are still there, because otherwise there are going to be a lot of BoA reviews with large chunks missing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Niemand Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 Bizarre. I see the problem as well, and the data is actually there for the hidden text (you can see it if you view the source, not that I'm suggesting that reader should be expected to do so), but I have no notion what's wrong with it. I'll try to look into it soon, and if I come up with a solution I'll ask Tyranicus to apply it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dintiradan Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 Ah; I had assumed that you installed the forum software on your site and just migrated the forums over (which might not have been as easy as I just made it sound). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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