Rhaomi | 2 years ago | on: Constellations are younger than continents
https://www.theonion.com/darling-i-will-give-you-the-moon-an...
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Rhaomi | 2 years ago | on: Reddit is now paying cash for karma
How about the fact that it's been less than two weeks since they destroyed the old coin system that countless users had paid into and/or earned tens of thousands of coins from, without providing anything in return? Seems like a bad idea to solicit free content from users immediately after showing how little you value it. But this is Reddit Inc. we're talking about.
Rhaomi | 2 years ago | on: ArchiveTeam has saved over 11.2B Reddit links
I really hope they're defaulting to Old Reddit, because I seem to recall Archive.org choking on the redesign and not actually showing anything readable for archived pages.
(Also, is this including Reddit-hosted images/video?)
Rhaomi | 6 years ago | on: YTMND is down for temporary maintenance
You can view most pages by going to:
https://web.archive.org/web/2019/http://SUBSITENAME.ytmnd.co...
This works for me even on iPad, so no Flash is needed. Also, you can search by tweaking the end of this URL:
https://web.archive.org/web/2019/http://ytmnd.com/keywords/S...
It will only work for search result pages Archive.org saved, and only for the first page of results, but they archived a LOT of them, so most relatively common search terms should work.
The archived YTMND also has a comprehensive list of "fads", which is great for context and examples:
https://web.archive.org/web/20170120213744/http://wiki.ytmnd...
Also, the most-viewed YTMNDs of all time:
https://web.archive.org/web/20190512045939/http://ytmnd.com/...
Lastly, this MetaFilter post I did rounded up some of my favorites:
Rhaomi | 11 years ago | on: The Starlight Lines Employee Forum RPG
Hey, yoz! Thanks for the shout-out. That is probably my favorite post of mine on the site (out of 100+ and counting). So wonderfully serendipitous and fun. Everything about that game is a joy.
I was actually looking back into some of the Starlight Lines forum stuff a few months ago when I discovered with dismay that the original URL (starlightlines.com) was down. I was thrilled to figure out you'd managed to resurrect it! (Did you ever see that email I sent you back in September?)
Anyway, the story of that hidden community is so great, I did my level best alerting anyplace that had originally picked up the story for a correction on the new URL so people could know it was still around. Apart from the fine folks at H2G2:
http://h2g2.com/feedback/A388334/conversation/view/F47997/T8...
...I didn't get much success -- including no response from Kotaku UK when I mailed them offering help for their pseudonymous writer on H2G2 who had been asking for leads on the apparently dead forum:
http://h2g2.com/entry/A452125/conversation/view/F55683/T8309...
It's good to see he ended up doing something with the story after all -- though it would be nice if he'd hat-tipped the MeFi thread where he apparently lifted that "sentient tomatoes" quote from verbatim (unless of course that's just a favorite turn-of-phrase of yours). Lately, MeFi needs all the Google juice it can get.
Cheers, and thanks for all the great stories!
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