I also contacted Paolo and he said that the EAv2 sites should be coming back online later today (as of 11:18 this morning)

WheelyFixed

Not sure what will be happening - I just got the following from Paolo

Bad news.
Did you download the zip file from Fhunter?
It seems that Kristoff cancelled the service, instead of asking for a renew.
I just got off the phone with Talula, who was assured they would renew it.
And the host lied.
The Archive is gone.
The host deleted it due to this misunderstanding.

I have sent him a reply asking for clarification about whether it is just the FA that's gone (but that thanks to Fhunter still exists) or if it is the EA forum as well?

WheelyFixed

WheelyFixed wrote: Fri Dec 20, 2024 4:11 am I also contacted Paolo and he said that the EAv2 sites should be coming back online later today (as of 11:18 this morning)

WheelyFixed

Please hurry. My crawler want to be used

Pretty sure it’s all gone now.

Latest word (as of 14:23, about 30 minutes ago) is that Talula MIGHT have a backup, but Paolo isn't sure how fresh it is - he will ask...

WheelyFixed

Maybe it’s just me, but can there be something more going on behind the scene here?

dandelion wrote: Fri Dec 20, 2024 7:13 am Maybe it’s just me, but can there be something more going on behind the scene here?

No idea - all I know is what Paolo tells me in e-mail... Initially he said it was a billing snafu where payment had been made, but not processed, and that things would be back up soon. Now he is saying that there was some more communication problems and as a result the host deleted everything...

If there is other melodrama going on behind the scenes, I'm not privy to it...

WheelyFixed

dandelion wrote: Fri Dec 20, 2024 3:16 am My main thing about EAv2 closing early is
1. I want to announce the launch of the new fiction archive there
2. I haven’t had a chance to scrape the old forum yet

I have text-only copy of the forum. Need to check contents, but it lost some formatting. Will check and share.

WheelyFixed wrote: Fri Dec 20, 2024 5:26 am Not sure what will be happening - I just got the following from Paolo

Bad news.
Did you download the zip file from Fhunter?
It seems that Kristoff cancelled the service, instead of asking for a renew.
I just got off the phone with Talula, who was assured they would renew it.
And the host lied.
The Archive is gone.
The host deleted it due to this misunderstanding.

I have sent him a reply asking for clarification about whether it is just the FA that's gone (but that thanks to Fhunter still exists) or if it is the EA forum as well?

WheelyFixed

As far as I understood Paolo - all is dead. Both forum and story archive. Not sure about forum backups.

I just got an email from Paolo - to summarize, EAv2 and the old fiction archive are GONE and will not be back!

This was caused by a communication screwup at the hosting company that led to the hosting company deleting everything.
One guy thought the payment from Kristoff for the site had ended on the 17th, and the other guy that had gotten the extension payment from Talula didn't communicate that well to the first guy who wiped everything out because he thought the payment was expired.

Paolo and LT have tried to recover the site and have not been able to.

NONE of the existing EA staff had anything to do with the site going down, and they did NOT want it to go down ahead of schedule. Please don't blame them or attack them for what was not their fault.

There is a few day old image of the forum. It and the FA will be going to Kinsey.

Fhunter has a text only scrape of the forum (see that topic) and there is some hope, but not any promises, that it may be possible to recover some of the old content and repost it here.

WheelyFixed