I only discovered that weboasis had a forum when I needed to find a particular search engine and saw the RIP notice. First of all I just want to extend my condolences. That is really tough and it sounds like Webby really built something beautiful. I know the portions I used were amazing. Anyway as the account name implies, I am from the "notorious" Kiwi Farms. What hit me the hardest is how similar Webby sounded to KF's Administrator Null. It seems like the users here had a similar laid back attitude and love of freedom that is all but disappearing from the internet today. Would y'all mind if I shared the information for the new site? It may help get more users here and people to help out. We need to stay strong together to keep things going.
Also I guess this can count as my introduction. You can call me Sneed. I'm enough of an oldfag I found Runescape with friends the first month it was out. I spent my formative years on forums, then 4chan, and spent a lot of time at reddit until recently (the absolute state of that place now...). When the Jannies were finally coming for me I sought refuge on the farms. It is certainly unlike anywhere else on the internet and I think that is awesome. I hope this place grows to be just as awesome!
-Sneed
I would say go for it. We are continuing Webby's legacy here. Over the years he has put together a good size community and we are trying to preserve all of the content plus that user base. The forum and chat registration are open for now, but i'm sure we will have to switch that to invite only at some point (not sure when yet).
I am lost for words as I have watched the years go by watching you make different chat services and this is my main source of information I have learnt so much from you! Maybe you can get all the links and put them in a text doc so I still have the info and all the torrent sites but it just won't be the same without this site. Someone should take it over because of its rank on google the only thing I can say is do not leave us. Just take a break.
true you guys need to stop thinking DPR is the successor just because he tried to "claim the throne", DPR would be my last pick. Stoob is good but I don't think he'd want to shell money out on hosting. It would be really easy if we just ignored financials and found the best person willing to maintain, and then donated together so they would have the money to pay for the hosting and domains.
I actually think stoob would be better than me at running the site. I'd totally be willling to donate some money to keep weboasis alive.
RIP. His free vpn probably had the best security, I really believed he kept his words and always deleted the logs.
Also my second to last post was "admin is also dead, last posted something in september" which aged really poorly since he was probably busy with real life stuff.
That would be the easy part. For the full experience though, we'd need the domain name.
Best thing we could do for the domain is send in a fake court order to the domain registrar and pretend to be police, seizing the site, like the hackers that stole dark.fail did. Good idea, but it's not the best solution since we can't host a forum or chatroom on it and some weboas.is services that require actual servers wouldn't work (like the pastebin for example)
I would be disappointed in Flokinet for responding to this
Also, RIP Bob fkn Saget... Webby is in good company
Yeah I will have to do that. I was holding off with the hope that it wouldn't be necessary. And for the most part, everything works, just clicking the home link. Shouldn't be too time intensive :/
That would be the easy part. For the full experience though, we'd need the domain name.
Best thing we could do for the domain is send in a fake court order to the domain registrar and pretend to be police, seizing the site, like the hackers that stole dark.fail did. Good idea, but it's not the best solution since we can't host a forum or chatroom on it and some weboas.is services that require actual servers wouldn't work (like the pastebin for example)
This is true, but my aim was mostly to ensure that the code was accessible should anyone choose to actually properly host it moving forward. I don't have the means to do so, but I DO have the means to toss it in a safe place , where at the very least we can pull it and move it elsewhere as needed. Also the gigantic excel sheet of all the links is included in there in the source files in case anyone gets bored and wants to clicky around the web. There's alot of them.
the only thing I can say is do not leave us. Just take a break.