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This thing still on?
by Rattle at 8:29 pm EDT, Apr 20, 2014 |
MemeStreams was down for about fifteen hours today. Sorry about that; My bad. An OS update screwed things up pretty badly. The MemeStreams code is about 13 years old. It has dependencies that no one maintains packages for anymore. Hence, much of what the site runs on needs to be built manually from source. Maintaining it on top of modern Linux distributions is non-trivial. It's sort of a nightmare. In general, the site has languished. We haven't made any improvements in almost ten years. At one point, it was pretty cutting edge, arguably ahead of it's time. Now, it's a memorial to itself. And as far as I'm concerned, that's OK. Even though I haven't posted to the site in a long time, I still give it love regularly. Or at least, just enough love to ensure it sticks around. A part of that is pride, in that I poured a huge amount of energy into this thing over the years. But the core reason is respect for the people who used this site and poured their passion into posts and dialog. This little corner of cyberspace saw some real action. There was ample discussion about wars, foreign policy, politics, economics, infosec, et cetera. Before Twitter, Tumblr, and Facebook took over, there was something really special here for a handful of us. I like knowing all that content is still "out there". MemeStreams is a shit show these days, and it's going to remain one because Decius and I have no time to do anything about it. Yet, we do intend to maintain it's presence indefinitely. We could use a little luck though.. We never seem to have any... |
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RE: This thing still on?
by Hijexx at 10:01 pm EDT, Apr 20, 2014 |
Rattle wrote:
Before Twitter, Tumblr, and Facebook took over, there was something really special here for a handful of us. I like knowing all that content is still "out there".
My ears are still on out here. I share the same sentiments as you. |
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RE: This thing still on?
by Dr. Nanochick at 11:48 pm EST, Feb 24, 2016 |
Rattle wrote:
MemeStreams was down for about fifteen hours today. Sorry about that; My bad. An OS update screwed things up pretty badly. The MemeStreams code is about 13 years old. It has dependencies that no one maintains packages for anymore. Hence, much of what the site runs on needs to be built manually from source. Maintaining it on top of modern Linux distributions is non-trivial. It's sort of a nightmare. In general, the site has languished. We haven't made any improvements in almost ten years. At one point, it was pretty cutting edge, arguably ahead of it's time. Now, it's a memorial to itself. And as far as I'm concerned, that's OK. Even though I haven't posted to the site in a long time, I still give it love regularly. Or at least, just enough love to ensure it sticks around. A part of that is pride, in that I poured a huge amount of energy into this thing over the years. But the core reason is respect for the people who used this site and poured their passion into posts and dialog. This little corner of cyberspace saw some real action. There was ample discussion about wars, foreign policy, politics, economics, infosec, et cetera. Before Twitter, Tumblr, and Facebook took over, there was something really special here for a handful of us. I like knowing all that content is still "out there". MemeStreams is a shit show these days, and it's going to remain one because Decius and I have no time to do anything about it. Yet, we do intend to maintain it's presence indefinitely. We could use a little luck though.. We never seem to have any...
It has been almost two years since you wrote this. I want you to know that I feel the same...I miss the Memestreams glory days. I am so happy that these "memories" are still here. |
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