A brief explanation of Ferretbrain's bout of existence failure.
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Heck, maybe this mini reopening will inspire me to revisit some half-baked article ideas I've been sitting on for a while. Or maybe not, we'll see.
(But seriously, Arthur, you can tell us where the site's really been at all this time: was it the Dreamlands? Yuggoth? The Plateau of Leng?)
Very glad to see you back. I was dang near heartbroken to think of the loss of all your (plural)detailed writings.
*relurks*
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I'm very pleased that we had readers who cared enough to worry when the site was down, but also I'm deeply amused that we got under some people's skins enough that years after the fact they came out of the woodwork to celebrate our apparent demise.
The very same!
On that topic, I tried to access a copy of Ferretbrain through the Internet Archive while the site was down, but it kept spitting out an error about how the "robots.txt" weren't configured or being blocked or something. Damnedest thing is, I checked the archive today, and all the recorded versions of Ferretbrain are back up. I might be something to look into, in case the site ever goes down permanently some day.
Finally, I'd also like to thank you for sparing me the time and hassle of editing and reposting all my old articles over on my blog. Now I can focus on not generating content in new, more exciting ways!
If Ferretbrain ever has to permanently go away I'd hope to be able to do it in the form of a controlled demolition rather than a sudden disappearance, if you see what I mean - announcing what is going to happen ahead of time to give people a chance to archive what they want and post whatever contact details/URLs for replacement communities they want to and then leaving it archived in a static format somehow.
Well, all the best to Wardog and Dan, and I hope the site keeps running in the mean-time!