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Question The Old Site Down again?

9 years 2 months ago #1 by joreymay
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    • For the last couple of days, I have been timing out when I try to access the old site. Is it down for the count, down for migration purposes, or up (but just timing out for me)? :S
    9 years 2 months ago #2 by Kristin Darken
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    • the whole server is down, not just the site... and I've gotten no word from Piper, so not sure.
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    9 years 2 months ago #3 by white
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    • I have been wondering about that too.
    It seems to me that wiki is also unavailable since it doesn't seem to load at all.
    I'm actually quite concerned since i have been reading first gen stories on the old site and cant get to them now, so when i started reading them here i noticed that some chapters are missing (or at least they are not yet included in first gen list).
    Now i don't know if they will transfer them later or not since everyone seems to have their hands full with new site but i sure hope they do.
    9 years 2 months ago - 9 years 2 months ago #4 by Arcanist Lupus
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    • white wrote: I have been wondering about that too.
    It seems to me that wiki is also unavailable since it doesn't seem to load at all.
    I'm actually quite concerned since i have been reading first gen stories on the old site and cant get to them now, so when i started reading them here i noticed that some chapters are missing (or at least they are not yet included in first gen list).
    Now i don't know if they will transfer them later or not since everyone seems to have their hands full with new site but i sure hope they do.

    The Wiki looks fine from where I am.

    They're working on transferring the G1 stories. It's taking a while because there are a lot of stories, but so far they've transferred over 250 chapters in about 3 months, which I'd say is a pretty good clip.
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    9 years 2 months ago #5 by Sir Lee
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    • The wiki is fine. It's hosted on Wikia, which is totally independent of the old site (or this one for that matter)

    As for the stories which are not (yet) available on the new site... well, until Piper fixes whatever is wrong there, I had some success accessing the old site via the Wayback Machine:

    web.archive.org/web/20160126095234/http://crystalhall.org/
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    9 years 2 months ago #6 by Kristin Darken
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    • Ya, as long as you aren't trying to access forums on the old site, internet archive / wayback machine are completely useful... because a large number of the stories have been on the old site for years and years without change and that means it is very easy to find them.

    But ya... most of the old stories have been transferred. I think we're done to only about 80 out of more than 300 total. And if you are at a point in your reading process that you need a story that hasn't been transferred yet, you could PM me to ask where in the work order it is. I'm just arbitrarily going in alphabetical order just for some means of keeping track... but I could just as easily do the next few stories that are in someone's reading list.
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    9 years 2 months ago - 9 years 2 months ago #7 by Phoenix Spiritus
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    • OK, I hit the wayback machine and checked our status, these counts may not be 100% accurate but they'll give you a pretty good idea,

    First, for some reason the wayback machine doesn't have "Tennyo Goes to Hell" Part 1 or 2, and these have not been transferred.

    Next, including the Library stories, I count about 180 "posts" still to go to transfer all the stories. So far there are about 250 posts on this site in the "Canon" section, but since some of them where postings to this site only that number isn't accurate for how many we've "transferred". I recon we're about "half way" through transferring the stories by post count (I use "post count" because it takes about as long to transfer each post regardless of its size as we need to do about the same amount of work for each post).

    So ...

    I got from the Wayback Machine nearly all the stories I could see needing to be transferred, but as we've seen before thats not guaranteed to be all of them, and we have 180 post to transfer still.
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    9 years 2 months ago #8 by Dreamer
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    • Well, going by the number of story and story parts I've done long comments on, the number of "Canon" posted only over here is 14 so far. If that helps figure out the number of "Canon" section left to transfer.
    Thank You for story comments appreciated and help me know me they are being read and liked. :-) Note: My story comments can't nor are trying to replace reading the stories, simply my way of enjoying them and letting the authors know I enjoy them.
    9 years 2 months ago - 9 years 2 months ago #9 by Kettlekorn
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    • I do have copies of Tennyo Goes To Hell parts 1 and 2 if needed, along with pretty much everything up through April 2013 that wasn't forums-only. They're all the original unmodified html files.
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    9 years 2 months ago #10 by Phoenix Spiritus
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    • If you can send me the unmodified HTML files I'd be grateful, I'll add them to rest of them I pulled off the payback machine.
    9 years 2 months ago #11 by Sir Lee
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    • Some news...
    Now, instead of being unresponsive, the site gives an "account suspended" placeholder page.

    Interestingly, Storysite also went down a couple days ago, but now it's back. I seem to remember something about Storysite being hosted at BigCloset... I wonder if the two outages are related?
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    9 years 2 months ago #12 by Sir Lee
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    • Apparently it's down for good. Piper pulled the plug (how is that for alliteration?):

    bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog-entry/60451/...losed#comment-439054
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    9 years 2 months ago #13 by elrodw
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    • Sir Lee wrote: The wiki is fine. It's hosted on Wikia, which is totally independent of the old site (or this one for that matter)

    As for the stories which are not (yet) available on the new site... well, until Piper fixes whatever is wrong there, I had some success accessing the old site via the Wayback Machine:


    If you can't find stories, please send me a list of what you're looking for. Neomagus needed a couple for reference for O&E part 3, and it was trivial for me to find them and pop them to him. I THINK I have all of them in .doc format. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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