kalianna - Hey Ironyak, only you can put this thread out of its misery.
Given the chaos caused from the last round of deleted threads, I'm not sure from which shoulder you're speaking this suggestion. ;) Could be entertaining though - instead of being a long-lived repository of local knowledge, have PunaWeb go all SnapChat style, with posts nuking themselves after 24 hours. Strong "you had to have been there"/"you never step in the same river twice" vibes and a much cleaner layout for sure!
But if this thread is the standard for warranting deletion, then almost all recent threads would have to be removed as well, and Rob wants warts and all, so I'll leave the thread to keep festering.
I will say that when PunaWeb went down a few years back, a handful of us were working behind the scenes and bouncing ideas around with Rob on how to restore the site. Ultimately, a paid solution was determined and people chipped in to bring things back online after several months of downtime.
If at the time PunaWeb was a cesspool of arguments about mainland b.s. and personalities and had lost its unique Puna & Hawaii-centric focus, I could see the decision being made that it wasn't worth the time, effort, and cost to restore. After all, there are more options than ever for arguing about national and world topics so why bother with maintaining yet another site for that purpose?
So if you all want PunaWeb to be the unique local resource as it once was and for it to be worth restoring when the next server issue occurs, maybe put some effort into not treating PunaWeb like Facebook, Twitter, or your personal chat room. Otherwise I wouldn't blame Rob, who doesn't even have the time or interest to read posts & moderate like he used to, much less tackle a server restore, for putting it out of its misery when the next opportunity arises.
Cheers!
Given the chaos caused from the last round of deleted threads, I'm not sure from which shoulder you're speaking this suggestion. ;) Could be entertaining though - instead of being a long-lived repository of local knowledge, have PunaWeb go all SnapChat style, with posts nuking themselves after 24 hours. Strong "you had to have been there"/"you never step in the same river twice" vibes and a much cleaner layout for sure!
But if this thread is the standard for warranting deletion, then almost all recent threads would have to be removed as well, and Rob wants warts and all, so I'll leave the thread to keep festering.
I will say that when PunaWeb went down a few years back, a handful of us were working behind the scenes and bouncing ideas around with Rob on how to restore the site. Ultimately, a paid solution was determined and people chipped in to bring things back online after several months of downtime.
If at the time PunaWeb was a cesspool of arguments about mainland b.s. and personalities and had lost its unique Puna & Hawaii-centric focus, I could see the decision being made that it wasn't worth the time, effort, and cost to restore. After all, there are more options than ever for arguing about national and world topics so why bother with maintaining yet another site for that purpose?
So if you all want PunaWeb to be the unique local resource as it once was and for it to be worth restoring when the next server issue occurs, maybe put some effort into not treating PunaWeb like Facebook, Twitter, or your personal chat room. Otherwise I wouldn't blame Rob, who doesn't even have the time or interest to read posts & moderate like he used to, much less tackle a server restore, for putting it out of its misery when the next opportunity arises.
Cheers!