We can only assume that the Web server has been eaten by a grue.
www.userfriendly.org seems to be gone, RIP Erwin, Dust Puppy and Co :(
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Re: www.userfriendly.org seems to be gone, RIP Erwin, Dust Puppy and Co :(
#102There were a number of early webcomics, with UF being among the more prominant. Others I recall: - "Cafe Hugo", I believe. Tagline included "vague enneui", possibly also "coffee, puns, ..." or something like that. Mostly college students / recent graduates and their life at a cafe. All traces seem lost. - "Westward Ho!" was a very short-lived, and I think intentionally limited, comic about a young woman engaged in fi…
doctor fun? https://nerocam.com/DrFun/Dave/archive.htm
That's one I remember seeing, based on the style.
Re: www.userfriendly.org seems to be gone, RIP Erwin, Dust Puppy and Co :(
#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
To the contrary, there's a lot of evidence that deplatforming actually works. In this case, it's not about getting rid of uncivil users, but dropping blatant trash. There are any number of website willing to host that filth. Why give them an additional platform out of a misguided sense of ideological purity, saying that horridly racist trolling is just as valid as any other content?
You've kinda lost track of object reality there: "Only logged in users who are deliberately un-hiding this content" is hardly "as valid as any other content". Slashdot's attitude is that things which are "removed" (voted to zero) ought to be auditable. This means everyone knows what the rules REALLY are (as opposed to what people SAY they are), and it also prevents the system from being abused (since you can triviall…
I’m definitely not logged in. Do you have a content blocker that hides comments on websites?
Re: www.userfriendly.org seems to be gone, RIP Erwin, Dust Puppy and Co :(
#104Ebbeh!!
Re: www.userfriendly.org seems to be gone, RIP Erwin, Dust Puppy and Co :(
#105It used to be a daily visit, for me. RIP, lil' Crud Puppy, and Great Old Ones...
I have been known to drop into Pitr's accent. No one gets it.
Re: www.userfriendly.org seems to be gone, RIP Erwin, Dust Puppy and Co :(
#106Since UF is now over, is there a book / compiled archive of the comic that isn't a wayback machine copy?
If you're looking for a download, someone posted a mega link higher up in the thread.
Convenience link: https://mega.nz/file/GKQQVbTY#1QmzfH7r2LAilAZU2RixI4yp-9IU6Q...
Re: www.userfriendly.org seems to be gone, RIP Erwin, Dust Puppy and Co :(
#107I wrote a spider many years back to download the comics and display them in a local interface. Somehow it survived several migrations and was on my synology. Here is an archive of the images if anybody wants them. https://mega.nz/file/GKQQVbTY#1QmzfH7r2LAilAZU2RixI4yp-9IU6Q... RIP UF, you were a big part of my childhood
Many thanks, I've got it on my NAS now. Fond memories of reading UF.
Re: www.userfriendly.org seems to be gone, RIP Erwin, Dust Puppy and Co :(
#108I wrote a spider many years back to download the comics and display them in a local interface. Somehow it survived several migrations and was on my synology. Here is an archive of the images if anybody wants them. https://mega.nz/file/GKQQVbTY#1QmzfH7r2LAilAZU2RixI4yp-9IU6Q... RIP UF, you were a big part of my childhood
UF also provided text transcripts which were searchable - did you get those too?
Re: www.userfriendly.org seems to be gone, RIP Erwin, Dust Puppy and Co :(
#109Why now? I think there hasn't been any fresh non-forum content on the site for at least 12 years. Just didn't feel like paying hosting costs, or something else?
According to this subthread, it's that the code is positively ancient: https://web.archive.org/web/20220225082909/http://ars.userfr... "Like for the past 17+ years... ... I own the ISP hosting UF. The biggest problem is supporting the legacy mod_perl stuff that the site is built on... you'd basically have to re-write the entire front end, or find a very bored perl monk to update the code base. Basically to keep the A…
Oh man. We're not the only ones still running a mod_perl Apache 1.3 stack in production?!
We have a few patches against the Apache 1.3 codebase, but, yea, it's a very old stack.
Re: www.userfriendly.org seems to be gone, RIP Erwin, Dust Puppy and Co :(
#110I wrote a spider many years back to download the comics and display them in a local interface. Somehow it survived several migrations and was on my synology. Here is an archive of the images if anybody wants them. https://mega.nz/file/GKQQVbTY#1QmzfH7r2LAilAZU2RixI4yp-9IU6Q... RIP UF, you were a big part of my childhood
I bought on of his books but it’s not the complete series.