Anyone got a screenname for the dev originally behind it?
Maybe this helps?
> Managers: Ninety
> Moderators: Amanda, vx0, kastein
I'm guessing they might be around on Libera or Freenode
Tell HN: Bash.org is no more
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#32This is what happens when you don't use a proper capital-S Stack. Probably they weren't even using Kubernetes and a separate multi-cloud management DB for monitoring their data pipeline ingest.
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#33It was down for a couple of months already. However, the IP and server seems to be there. Maybe the person who keeps that up will restart the daemons when they remember they operate one of the nostalgia cornerstones of better part of the internet. Maybe the server's password is hunter2. Let's see whether can I access it. Edit: Nope. Seems firewalled.
So you're saying the server pings but nobody knows where it's at?
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#34total bummer. i had contributed a bunch of great convos over the years. is there a mirror?
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#35can't they just put all the quotes on wikipedia or twitter or something
far better off as an independent entity beyond those centralised place's ever changing rules.
Is it? It was its own private entity and now it's offline probably forever.
Edit: I think it'd be far better off on Wikipedia than Twitter
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#36There were also national versions, e.g. http://bash.hu is still online.
Would love to have a collection, there is far too little sociological/folklore research about the net.
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#37Always surprised when some of these sites shut down. The operating cost seems low and putting on a few ads (ethical, non-intrusive, etc.) can net you passive $100+/mo.
It's more than money, they still require care and feeding. At some age (and I'm getting to that), you just tire of being a sysadm, esp. for "home"/hobby stuff.
A historical archive of something should allow for robust, non-interactive ways to persist. Maybe there should be standards for this. In the mean time we can find gratitude to archive.org and similar services
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#39It was down for a couple of months already. However, the IP and server seems to be there. Maybe the person who keeps that up will restart the daemons when they remember they operate one of the nostalgia cornerstones of better part of the internet. Maybe the server's password is hunter2. Let's see whether can I access it. Edit: Nope. Seems firewalled.
So you're saying the server pings but nobody knows where it's at?
Host resolves, packets are dropped (ICMP timeouts, but nothing is "unreachable"). My sysadmin gut says that the server is there, behind a firewall, and the webserver is down/stopped, or the firewall is killing everything.
The IP is not shared. It reverse-resolves, too.
So, it's not dismantled and thrown to side.
Looks like the hosting provider, Idologic, got bought by Stablepoint. Maybe they have somehow blocked the site during the merger?
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#40There were also national versions, e.g. http://bash.hu is still online. Would love to have a collection, there is far too little sociological/folklore research about the net.
http://www.ibash.de for Germany :-)