[Web] Amigaworld.net down | ANN.lu |
Posted on 02-Sep-2004 16:26 GMT by Mikey_C | 281 comments View flat View list |
Amigaworld.net is currently down due to hard drive failure.
Everything possible is being done to return the site to normal, however we are unable to give an ETA at this time.
In the meantime, the Amigaworld IRC network continues to function via the remaining US and European Amigaworld Servers
They are:-
UK.Amigaworld.Net
US2.Amigaworld.Net
NO.Amigaworld.Net
Updates will continue to be posted here as and when we know.
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Amigaworld.net down : Comment 96 of 281 | ANN.lu |
Posted by takemehomegrandma on 03-Sep-2004 09:22 GMT | In reply to Comment 77 (Wayne Hunt): > While I don't really agree with the reasons, nor the methods used in the
> initial founding of Amigaworld.net (as an official exodus from Amiga.org)
Personally, I have never made a secret of what I thought about the exodus. But that was back at a time where I was actually still hoping for some kind of united amiga community (back at a time where I actually *cared* about the Amiga, now "my morph is complete"! ;-) ). I could never understand the raged hostility against the alternative solutions that was boiling among certain people, but it annoyed me greatly. Later, these same "certain people" made this official exodus from amiga.org and ann.lu, which I, at that time, looked at as an incredible backstabbing at the core of the "united" Amiga community, the (until then) stable institutions (amiga.org and ann.lu) that had kept Amiga up during long times of chrisis. A community is formed by its people, and I have never really liked the people in the amigaworld.net community because of the above reasons, and much would have to happen before I put my digital footprint there.
But this is somewhat troublesome for me for another reason. Despite what I have said earlier through the years, I have quite recently become an A1 owner. The only reason to why I bought it was to be able to see how OS4 develops with my own eyes. This is a foolish luxery, since *I know* about its problems and *I know* that they will never be fixed, but hey, it's only money, right? ;-) If I wanted to, where can I discuss the A1? On ann? Hardly. On Amiga.org? Hardly that too. During this spring and this summer I have seen amiga.org turn into a amiga retro computing site, and ann.lu into a silent place with occasional flamefests. First the A1 people left, and in the traces of Genesi's "Pretory Chrisis" (and the actions from certain webmasters because of this), the MorphOS people kind of left too. "Retro" is mainly what is left on amiga.org, and "fights" is mainly what is left on ann.lu. This is only my humble opinion of course, and maybe you won't agree.
Anyway, I have no real need to discuss A1 things (I don't really care about it, it's not really usable at the moment anyway because of the state OS4 is in), I have no real need to discuss retro things, and I have no real need for endless fights. For me, morphos-news.de is the MorphOS version of ANN.lu, and morphzone.org is the MorphOS version of Amiga.org, because I have come to the conclusion that my interest in "Amiga" has dropped drasticly, and my interest in "MorphOS" has increased to the same amount. I look around me, and it looks like the exodus people who wanted this "apartheid" to keep the pure from the infidels seems to be getting what they want, but I don't care about that anymore.
I still visit ANN at least once a day, and amiga.org at least once a week though. But amigaworld.net? Nah, I can live without those people! |
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