[donatj]

I heard this was coming a couple weeks ago. I don't know why you'd shut the entire website down, rather than just put it into hibernation?

I mean I don't know what is hosting situation is, but I can't imagine there's a ton of traffic on a comic that hasn't had a new post in years. Seems like it would be worth keeping it up just for old time sake.

It would be reasonable enough to host the entire thing for probably a couple bucks a year on s3.

[mauvehaus]

Because he's been posting reruns for approximately ever in internet time and the community has been the soul of the site for even longer. To be frank, it wasn't a webcomic you stuck with for either the art or the humor. Every now and then, there was a funny strip or storyline, but it's not something that needs to be endlessly rehashed.

It seems the community has moved to another forum, so there's no real reason to keep posting reruns on some more-or-less static hibernation mode site.

I hung out there sporadically for a few years and moved on. It was a small-ish community that was by and large friendly and supportive (I mean, like almost 20 years ago, can't speak for what it's like today). At that time, the regulars knew each other, at least digitally, and sometimes IRL.

People may have come for the comic, but those that stayed stayed for the forum.

[matt_heimer]

Seems like it was a legacy mod_perl code base that was difficult to maintain. https://web.archive.org/web/20220225082909/http://ars.userfr...

[donatj]

There’s a number of good tools that can rip an entire site to static content.