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zigdon / xkcd-Bucket

Bucket is the channel bot for #xkcd
http://wiki.xkcd.com/irc/Bucket
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Wiki is down #127

Open Mrifk opened 5 years ago

Mrifk commented 5 years ago

http://wiki.xkcd.com/ is down. Could the link http://wiki.xkcd.com/irc/Bucket be updated to https://web.archive.org/web/20190224153505/http://wiki.xkcd.com/irc/Bucket ? Perhaps the docs could be put in this repository's wiki?

dgw commented 5 years ago

It's not likely to be down long enough to warrant updating the links. It's apparently tied to the service hosting xkcd's forums, which are offline for a security audit.

Having docs in this repo couldn't hurt, though. Just not in GitHub's wiki feature… But feel free to make a PR adding docs here!

barometz commented 2 years ago

For what it's worth, we have been using GitHub's wiki feature for a bit. Anyone remember why that was a bad idea?

dgw commented 2 years ago

GitHub's wiki feature has always felt a little clunky to me, but at this point it's certainly better than just not having the wiki content available anywhere.

I was hoping the xkcd wiki and forums would be restored eventually, but after over two years I think it's time to move on. (Can't blame anyone for not wanting to deal with the effort of restoring them. Some of my own web stuff is still offline after 6 months because of the effort it would take to restore from backups, vs. the tiny amount of utility it would bring.)