I'm using the most recent edition of Firefox. For the last two days, whenever I go to post, the progress bar on the right goes through, the left says "Done", and the posting box is still sitting there with my words in it. However, if I click back to the main page, the thread says 1 new message. When I go to read that 1 new, I find that it's my post. It's happened in every thread I've posted in.
Zoe: First rule of battle, little one. Don't ever let 'em know where you are. Mal: Whoo-hoo! I'm right here! I'm right here! You want some of me? Yeah, you do! Come on! Come on! Aaah! Whoo-hoo! Zoe: Of course, there are other schools of thought...
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Deena - Apr 30, 2005 10:21:06 am PDT #9847 of 10000
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
Lee - Apr 30, 2005 10:55:51 am PDT #9848 of 10000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
ita mentioned the wayback machine in the B'cracy thread. Very cool, but I can't get to any of the actual threads. I get the error message below.
Robots.txt Retrieval Exclusion.
We're sorry, access to .http://www.buffistas.org/showthread.php?thread_id=51&post_id=1 &PHPSESSID=aa86a0a2939c6131db5b26bdfac1a747 has been blocked by the site owner via robots.txt. Read more about robots.txt See the site's robots.txt file. Try another request or click here to search for all pages on buffistas.org/showthread.php?thread_id=51&post_id=1 &PHPSESSID=aa86a0a2939c6131db5b26bdfac1a747 See the FAQs for more info and help, or contact us.
Eddie - Apr 30, 2005 11:15:43 am PDT #9849 of 10000
Your tag here.
If you take a look at B.org's robots.txt file, you'll see it instructs webcrawlers (from search engines like google.com, and in this case the waybackmachine) to not index the showthread.php file. Showthread is what displays the posts here. I presume the reason for this is to stay under the radar and to conserve bandwidth, otherwise everyone who googled Buffy porn would be hitting this site.
§ ita § - Apr 30, 2005 12:13:39 pm PDT #9850 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It's not bandwidth, so much as a thin veil of obscurity. It's the big old world wide web, anyone could be lurking, but cutting down on the number of ways to stumble on us seemed a small enough thing to do.
Topic!Cindy - Apr 30, 2005 12:56:44 pm PDT #9851 of 10000
What is even happening?
We've archived our own stuff. Any of us who wants to can dl the archives.
I love the wayback machine, but it's only as good as its technology. There used to be a lot more of the Bronze available via the wayback machine. But when UPN took over the domain name, it somehow frelled up what was available of Apollo/The WB's version of the Bronze, or at least, the frelling seemed to happen at the same time. I wouldn't like to see us lose our veil just so we'll get archived.
Lee - Apr 30, 2005 8:01:23 pm PDT #9852 of 10000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
So is there a way for me to actually view the posts on the wayback machine?
Eddie - Apr 30, 2005 9:28:58 pm PDT #9853 of 10000
Your tag here.
Nope, ita told the waybackmachine to mind its own business.
DXMachina - May 01, 2005 2:24:02 am PDT #9854 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
So is there a way for me to actually view the posts on the wayback machine?
You can download the thread you want to look at from our archives.
brenda m - May 02, 2005 10:57:14 am PDT #9855 of 10000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Wait, I don't think anybody's addressed the real question here. When did someone steal the real Perkins and replace her with a Robot???
Lee - May 02, 2005 5:51:25 pm PDT #9856 of 10000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Damn, now I have to kill Brenda.
Stoopid programming.