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https://web.archive.org/web/20220225062754/http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/read.cgi?id=20220224&tid=4056273 https://web.archive.org/web/20220225062754/http

by mattl 5y ago

https://web.archive.org/web/20220225062754/http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/read.cgi?id=20220224&tid=4056273 https://web.archive.org/web/20220225062754/http://ars.userfr...

tpmx 5y ago
Announced the day of the Ukraine invasion...
- mattl 5y ago
  Was the writer based in Ukraine?
  - danudey 5y ago
    Canada (and, since 2014, Vancouver specifically).
causality0 5y ago
Was there an explanation? Considering the low traffic I'm sure they could keep it running off of donations from nostalgic readers.
- Lascaille 5y ago
  From a quick flick through based on that link, the issue seems to be that the forum code is bespoke and written in perl, and the environment (apache & mod_perl, nothing great, nothing terrible) is obsolete and nobody who's volunteered to port it in the past actually followed through.
  - bombcar 5y ago
    Maintaining a working forum is obviously a chore, but converting it to read only pages could have been worth it.
    - Gigachad 5y ago
      archive.org is that readonly form.
CobrastanJorji 5y ago
The discussion on that last thread is interesting. Somebody put together a list of all of the marriages that came from people who met on that forum, and it was not a short list.
- fouc 5y ago
  Interesting indeed, at least 6 couples.