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by mattl 1564 days ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20220225062754/http://ars.userfr...
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The discussion on that last thread is interesting. Somebody put together a list of all of the marriages that came from people who met on that forum, and it was not a short list.
Interesting indeed, at least 6 couples.
Was there an explanation? Considering the low traffic I'm sure they could keep it running off of donations from nostalgic readers.
From a quick flick through based on that link, the issue seems to be that the forum code is bespoke and written in perl, and the environment (apache & mod_perl, nothing great, nothing terrible) is obsolete and nobody who's volunteered to port it in the past actually followed through.
Maintaining a working forum is obviously a chore, but converting it to read only pages could have been worth it.
archive.org is that readonly form.
Announced the day of the Ukraine invasion...
Was the writer based in Ukraine?
Canada (and, since 2014, Vancouver specifically).