@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.
@TwitterSpaces How about the reaction on has when one discovers that Twitter doesn't want to have anybody in a space hear from one, because one doesn't own a cell phone? As I, just now, as I joined this space
and looked for the microphone mentioned in the directions.
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@TwitterSpaces Not finding one, I tweeted to the organizer, who was good enough to reply quickly and give me the bad news: that the mic could only be given to those who had the "app" installed.
In other words, those who connected by cell phone instead of by desk top or lap top.
@TwitterSpaces Your company's position, then, would seem to be that if one is going through a rough patch and if a cell phone has become a luxury that one can not afford, that not only is one's voice not worth hearing, but in fact that others should be denied the freedom to listen to it.
You could use that one. It was the first one announced, today, your time, beating out #funny by a few minutes.
@NikkiDeeAuthor If you're waiting for a prompt from a woman posting from the United States, you perhaps should be aware than even on the East Coast in said country, that it is only 4:53 in the morning, and that she shouldn't be expected to be up, quite yet.
and, again, @roadtoserfdom3's tweet, the parent tweet, can be seen to be missing.
@MarkWal06578936@roadtoserfdom3 But if one goes directly to rts's tweet, which I linked to above, and scrolls down, yes, one comes back to Mark Wall's tweet, showing that it is, indeed, the parent.
There is absolutely no excuse for this behavior on the part of Twitter.
@juneslater17@bjames280961@JamesMelville Sorry June, no. I was one of the people defying the lockdowns on day one, and I knew that this was all BS within the first hour of hearing the words "social distancing." I even posted about it.
You know what I heard in response? People like you going into hysterics.
@juneslater17@bjames280961@JamesMelville I had somebody seriously try to claim that basic Probability Theory was ableist. I wish that were a joke, but no, it's the sad literal truth.
I was floored by just how confident s t u p i d people could be.
@juneslater17@bjames280961@JamesMelville I strongly suspect that this was a major factor in the prolongation of this travesty. Covid gave d u m b people a chance to feel smart. All they had to do was watch the news and repeat what they heard, and they could feel like they were scientists, too.
@PamelaGeller I just heard that the "UFOs" in question were just some more balloons, smaller in size than the last one that the Chinese sent over. If so, isn't even one fighter jet serious, overpriced overkill?
How hard could it be to take out a balloon?
@PamelaGeller A sidewinder missile, I understand, costs over $400,000. A balloon probably doesn't cost the Chinese anywhere close to that.
@PamelaGeller Note: to be completely forthcoming, the source of that rumor I just relayed turned out to be a troll, so one should take it with a grain of salt until one finds a reputable source confirming it.
@Brosephchadsky@QueerComicBooks@PeterSweden7 Or the part where people were slammed face first into the pavement by their local police for being outside for "inessential" purposes?
Such incidents were not only captured on video, but passionately defended by people like QCB.
@Brosephchadsky@QueerComicBooks@PeterSweden7 In Chicago, we managed to escape the full repressive misery of a Melbourne style lockdown, just barely, because when it was attempted in March of 2020, it immediately encountered pushback, in the form of massive civil disobedience.
@Brosephchadsky@QueerComicBooks@PeterSweden7 Having been forbidden to sit down in the benches in the city parks, we started doing exactly that, en masse, as the announced curfew began. We then continued being out, in such massive numbers, that the Chicago Police Department probably gave up all hope of enforcement.