Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Diary-X

In An Open Letter, Diary-X's Stephen Deken says this:
Diary-X has suffered from an unrecoverable drive failure. Due to a combination of issues, the last backup (from December 2004) contained only configuration files and other non-essential files. We do not have any other backups for the site. All journals, user information, forum posts, templates, images, and everything else are all irrecoverably lost... I believe it makes the most sense to close Diary-X permanently. Tentatively, the site will go dark on March 31st, 2006.
But going to diary-x.com says they are going to rework the site and Diary-X will be "reborn." Wikipedia says this:
As of March 2006, a community project is underway to construct a site which combines the features popularized by Diary-X with more modern features popular on other services. This community project, called Codexed, is headed up by a group of eight people. The administrator of the original site plans to contribute to the new project, but will not be involved in the administration.
According to answers.com, in 2005, Diary-X hosted approximately 120,000 journals, of which approximately 8,000 were being actively updated.

Old Diary-X users can register their new site here.

Tuesday, March 21, 2006

Changes

I am currently working on re-vamping Dialog: Breaking the Bubble. Stay tuned for updates in the next few days!