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While I am glad that the OLF appears to be coming back up....
It takes me to a bigger thought..... Sometimes they don't. We often think of these forums almost like a public library or the library of congress.... Or a permanent record.... And the reality is that they are privately owned and as such - are at risk of failure and disappearing. For example... There was the "Luthier Forum" owned by tonewood cutter Mario DaCosta.... I participated there and also bought some wood from him... Well - he died suddenly about a year ago... And that forum is gone now.... And with it went the threads containing my first 5 guitar builds. There was one professional luthier who participated there which died.. All his tutorials and advice is now gone with the forum.... And he posted a LOT of tutorial stuff there.... So.. Nothing lives forever.... And we have to keep that in mind. |
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OLF back up this morning.
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Not 100% back to normal, but it's getting there.
I would imagine that by this time tomorrow it will be up to speed. |
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I would not be surprised if this forum was owned by a big conglomerate that buys up lots of popular forums starting about ten years ago. Lance is doing it old skool which is kind of cool because he gets to control it and isn't under a larger authority but it also means that the whole thing is under him. I knew a guy who started a bicycle related forum more or less as a hobby back in the 90's and sold it for enough money to retire on about a decade later. Those days are gone. I doubt a luthiers forum would ever garnish that kind of viewership though the OLF does get quite a bit of traffic.
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Everything back to normal now on the OLF.
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Not for me... Seems like they aren't all the way out of the woods yet.....
I am still glad to hear they didn't go belly up.... |
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It's good now!
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I'm still 404in'...
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Just posted there.
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Server not responding for me today, working for anyone else?
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Nope. nslookup tells me none existant domain so looks like a DNS problem.
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Yeah, it's having problems again. You can still get in through the IP address 72.52.253.93
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Hey, neat trick, thanks!
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All sorted now ...
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Quote:
http://web.archive.org/web/201603250...eBoucher1.html I've used the archive to find web pages that have been gone for several years. |