bbs mates website is gone again? reddit / bbs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- JohnPolka · 2021-09-05 05:14 Not too long ago someone took over the inactive bbs mates website ([https://www.bbsmates.com/](https://www.bbsmates.com/)). For a little while there it was active again. Now it looks like it's offline again. Does anyone know what happened to it? According to the Internet Archive, it was up on 7/7/21 ([https://web.archive.org/web/20210707015 250/https://www.bbsmates.com/](https://web.archive.org/web/20210707015 250/https://www.bbsmates.com/)). \-JP ---------------------------------------------------------------------- DelphinusMinor · 2021-09-08 21:06 Damn. It appears it is gone. My BBS was listed there. I put it online in 1987 and took it offline 32 years ago. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- lucidphreak · 2021-09-09 15:23 I didnt take it over, I was going to and the site hosted through AWS ran slow, so the original guy who ran it took the initiative to put it back up. I will contact him and find out why its down again. I think he has a lot of stuff in "real world" life that keeps him busy... Not sure he ever fixed the parts of the site that were broken either... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- lucidphreak · 2021-09-09 15:24 I still have the entire site... so if he is dead set against running it, with his permission (again) I will try to work out getting it back online. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- tallship · 2021-09-11 02:29 Yes this site very much a viable, and living historical landmark, with research as well as sentimental value. People don't go somewhere, comment, etc., because they know it will be erased. People are part of the participation because they expect it to remain extant as a part of the heritage and historical record. Thank you for stepping up, and lemme know if I can help too. I'm a service provider and could offer a machine if need be. With all of the new BBS deployments and folks joining our nets - the Filebones and message echoes in the past few years, it's an even more relevant resource to ensure the continuity of. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2021-09-12 13:57 bbsmates has gone down every time it was up for renewal not counting all the random times his basement computer has been switched off. the operator has no interest in it. about six times I've had to track him down using weird methods and tell him the site is down. just let it be down. it's not really a treasure to the bbs community. hasn't been for 20 years. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2021-09-13 13:47 I’m not going to dox him here, but when Googling the site you can find the original owner’s contact information. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2021-09-14 15:55 thanks for the downvote, but the truth is the truth, fella. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- JohnPolka · 2021-09-17 09:27 When it went back up this last time, the site still had some broken elements. The 'edit' feature did not work and I know some people who tried to create a new account and could not. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- mkohn773 · 2022-05-01 07:53 Seems to be down...perhaps for good??