Waxidermy Issues?
jinx74
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Since early this morning Waxidermy wont open for me. It keeps downloading files from the site right on my desktop. Is this happening to anyone else?
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If it's prompting you to download files, sounds like waxidermy got hacked.
I have a Mac(k) so, virus' don't affect me
I was in the middle of a post and it went down
Peace
Feels like a room full of I.T. guys that have known each other for 20 years droning on about DOS and tech minutiae found in early 80’s computers…except waxi dudes are into PINA, advanced smooth (they do have a solid sense of humour), folkways ish, loner moves, etc. Very inside-baseball about sounds that are generally poison to my ears.
The ethnohonkies thread over there is comedy gold tho. Those boys know how to laugh. I’ve almost killed myself laughing at a few posts on that thread. So good.
BITD I liked the reviews because the point was to find the weirdest stuff. But to me that's a different purpose to talking about the genres you like. I don't actually like "weird records that suck" except in pretty small doses.
I agree. It does seam fitting that a batch of Paul Major worshippers could never advance past 2002 BBS technology. That said, I never understood why a lot of them would shit on this site, especially when it wouldn't exist without this place.
Daddy issues?
As someone from the tech world, dbase migrations are one of the most stressful, hair graying experiences when they are going well. Hopefully Hcrink and the team working on the migration can manage it and be back up soon. Otherwise, they will have to restart the site from ground zero.
Seriously I hope crink pulls it off though!
I hope so too. I am not a member of Waxi but in the table top gaming (TTG) community we have had a raft of old sites slip away and die. The saying, "the internet is forever," is not totally true. If the worst should happen, you might be able to see some of the site here:
https://archive.org/web/
I was able to find the last viable backup for Waxi from Feb 5, 2021 there:
https://web.archive.org/web/20210205075541/http://waxidermy.com/bbs/
EDIT: Well that is a bummer. The main page was backed up in 2021 but the links it has only go up to about 2017. So, there is a lot of history that has gone missing. That also may be that they do not display active parts of the site at the Wayback Machine and when it detects that Waxi is MIA it will put up more recent versions that it has recorded. Too early to tell.
This site has been invaluable in the TTG community's effort to preserve some of our history on the web.