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@brief_fiction
Mar 27, 2022 • 13 tweets • 9 min read • Read on X
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@archiveis @waybackmachine This is what I am seeing when I go to your site.

"Welcome to nginx!

If you see this page, the nginx web server is successfully installed and working. Further configuration is required.

For online documentation and support please refer to nginx.org."
@archiveis @waybackmachine "Commercial support is available at nginx.com.

Thank you for using nginx."
@archiveis @waybackmachine Let us speak plainly, because we will both save a lot of time by doing so. I am aware of the fact that you provide this service for free. If you have found some way to monetize it, I have no idea as to what it would be, so I suppose that you don't really owe us anything.
@archiveis @waybackmachine That much is understood. But your service has been down and completely unusable for about a week, now, and the only thing that I see you saying about outages refers to DDOS attacks, which clearly aren't the issue in this case, because that error page loads quickly.
@archiveis @waybackmachine I hear that you live in the Czech Republic, which I suppose would put you uncomfortably close to the hostilities. You might have things to deal with that are of greater concern to you than the future of Archive.Today.
@archiveis @waybackmachine I respect and understand that, but even sensible choices can have unpleasant consequences for those making them. If you continue to neglect this project of yours for much longer, users are going to give up and walk away from it, and it will wither away and be forgotten.
@archiveis @waybackmachine People will take one look at this supposed archive that, for a week, has been nothing but a placeholder page and think that they're seeing something that, for whatever reason, is on its way out and not worth their time, because it's not worth its creator's time.
@archiveis @waybackmachine Please don't take this as a personal attack, because it's not. If I had a potential world war building up in my area, I'd probably be headed for the literal hills right now, myself. If that's what you're doing, I'm not going to judge you for that, at all.
@archiveis @waybackmachine Good luck, thank you for your past work, and my prayers go with you, in that case.

But should you be comfortably lingering in Prague at the moment, thinking that everything is up and running, please know that it is not, and that you need to fix this, very soon.
@archiveis @waybackmachine Or at least say something about the problem and your progress in fixing it.

You were using Russian servers, weren't you? Meaning, maybe, that you'll have to set up on a new server and that will take time?
@archiveis @waybackmachine If so, then please say something about that. I think that you'll find that your users will be reasonable and sympathetic.

But this silence of yours about the current, non-functional status of the Archive is going to kill it, so please consider the possibility of saying something
@archiveis @waybackmachine Unless you want to see Archive.Today abandoned and forgotten, and for all of the work you put into creating it to go to waste.

That's not what you'd want to see happen, is it?
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That's not a small difference. One can still come to a reasonable understanding with an adversary. An enemy has to be beaten into the ground, and bullied into submission, if one is to find peace.
@IDentityIOTS @BohuslavskaKate I can still remember him talking about providing sanctuary to White Americans during the BLM riots, and expressing concerns about the possibility of a cultural revolution being underway here.

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Russia isn't that crazed, and our respective nuclear arsenals, as devastating as they would be if used, aren't as powerful as the science fiction movies you seem to be getting your ideas out of would suggest.
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That's a Hollywood fantasy and it always was.
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This is a fact. Accept it or don't.
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