I would like to suggest: www.highstreetdiaspora.com as an alternate URL, or maybe www.choads-space.com.    Both are currently available.  Just my 2 cents.

I used to be tech savvy enough to offer to be a backup for this kind of thing, but I haven't dabbled in web development in a good 6-7 years.  I have basic knowledge, so if no one else steps up, I could be a last resort. 

Thanks,

RT

Well, that went quicker than I thought.  The transfer is done and everything seems to be working.  Speak up if you see anything amiss.

Not a bad suggestion, Dusty...

Does Rcade still have cruel.com registered?  I can always ask him...unless he sees it here first.

IF not, there's always crueldiaspora.com as well.

Cruel redux would be perfect if the domain name is available.  I would offer to be a backup, but my tech chops are limited to power tools and legal niceties.  I do appreciate all the effort that maintaining this little zoo entails.  Thank you, square and others, for stepping up. 

p.s. - i promise never to use comic sans again.

FYI, I talked to Rogers.  Due to him not being self employed anymore, he is (rightly) concerned about letting us use Cruel since it ties back to him.  He did think about it for a hot minute....but that option appears to be out.

RT

square wrote:

Well, that went quicker than I thought.  The transfer is done and everything seems to be working.  Speak up if you see anything amiss.

Not a bad suggestion, Dusty...

Everything looks as it should from what I can tell.

Baywolfe wrote:

Emmeran wrote:

I'm in for an annual donation to keep this digital dive-bar alive, I love it here.

Ditto.

I'm in.

Fled wrote:

How about Cruel-Street.com?

Sounds Good!

I'll throw money in once I get past the possibilities of eviction due to loss of business, and Oregon Unemployment fucking me over for being self employed.  I will know for sure by the 1st.

I'd be happy to help out financially, that's the easy part.  I took down my BBS 16 years ago, and since then have set up one message board and one Facebork group so my technical savy is dated or small.  I have a very full time job and several volunteer things going on, adding another one wouldn't kill me but you might not get fast turn around.

I hate to get into nuts and bolts but someone must take ownership then we need to calculate annual costs and necessary fund raising goals.  Also, sadly, we must establish a line of succession to prevent this from happening again.  I'd volunteer but seeing how I flat-lined twice in January that would probably be a very temporary solution.

Damn Bill we miss you...

Still not back home yet so I haven't been participating much in the conversation.  Thanks to all those offering to chip in funds.  The actual cost is small ($5/month) so even adding the name registration and a backup service (which we should) ought not to exceed $100/year.  I'm in good enough shape to manage that, so no worries there.

So far RT and hedgewizard have said they could be technical backups but aren't that up to date.  That's fine, there's not much real need to dig in and get your hands dirty.  If anyone else wants to step up, please post.  While I'm in reasonable health, one never knows and having a plan is good.

As JR points out, some more posts would be fantastic!  And keep the name suggestions coming; I haven't given that much thought as yet but am liking the ideas.

Cruelery!

Cruelery.com is good.  Also ChoadStreet.org could be good, ha.

cruelery is a fitting home for this buzzardsrest.

square wrote:

OK, based on popular demand I have secured the cruelery.com domain name and (partially) gotten it set up.  It only works for http right now, https will come after I complete item #1 below.

At the moment, my intention is to switch to cruelery.com as a URL, but maintain "High Street" as the forum name.  This is partially laziness ("High Street" appears everywhere) and partially nostalgia.  Let me know if you think this is a problem.

Near-term tasks still to be done:

1. Update SSL certificate to include cruelery.com.


2. Remove banners that specifically reference "high-street.org". (done, I think)


3. Modify references to "high-street.org" in various random places (forum configuration, e-mail addresses, etc.).


4. Configure web server to do a 301 redirect to cruelery.com in response to requests for high-street.org and greenlobster.net so search engines, etc. know about the change.


5. Edit posts in the database having links to high-street.org to point to cruelery.com instead.

Most Excellent!

Auto-edited on 2020-08-02 to update URLs

matty.the.damned wrote:

Double plus unbad, :)

Newspeak contains no negative terms, so while ungood = bad, just good = good.  ;-)

BorderCount wrote:

Baywolfe wrote:

matty.the.damned wrote:

Double plus unbad, :)

Newspeak contains no negative terms, so while ungood = bad, just good = good.  ;-)

Well, then, fuck Newspeak.

Zackly.

square wrote:

Thanks for the encouragement.  Forgot to list one task:

3 1/2. Update the "About" page to reflect the site changes.

Keep posting, everyone!

We have an About page?  Shit I'm learning new things on a weekly basis around here.

square wrote:

OK, I think I have the SSL certificate sorted out so you can access https://cruelery.com/.  Please try it out and let me know if you run into any trouble.

Works!

Everything seems to be functioning normally.

One minor thing, when I went to bookmark the new site, it said, "High-Street.Org - The Web's Bitter Afterbirth" in the Google name field.  And of course, the same icon.

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square wrote:

OK, I think I have the SSL certificate sorted out so you can access https://cruelery.com/.  Please try it out and let me know if you run into any trouble.

It works but comes up as not secure. At least for me.

matty.the.damned wrote:

Ignore this. I'm a dumb cunt.

I assume you're talking about an "insecure content" warning?  Not a dumb thing to question at all.  But yeah, you're going to get that whenever someone hotlinks an image or video in a post using plain http.  Looks like the image upload page encouraged this - I just tweaked it so it gives https URLs instead.

I updated the "About" page and think I have set all the other random configuration settings to use cruelery.com.  Let me know if you see "high-street.org" popping up anywhere (except links in posts - I haven't fixed those yet).

All those who have offered to chip in funds - thanks, but arranging payment is too much of a hassle and the cost of running the site is minimal (I refuse to use PayPal and the like).  I would suggest making a donation somewhere in Bill's name, but am having trouble imagining a charity he would have trust in.  Perhaps it would be most fitting to hand cash to your local wino so he can get loaded.

Thanks for being willing to keep this mess going, square.  I don't know which database you're using but it should be as easy as;

SELECT Replace(comment_text, 'high-street.org', 'cruelery.com')
  FROM WhateverTheFuckTheTableNameIs