IGN Decides To "discontinue Free Hosting Services"

[QuakeSoldiers]

Wow! That is a HUGE list. I have no problem mirroring all of these sites on QuakeSoldiers.com how ever I am only one person. If there's anyone that wants to help, message me on YIM (quakesoldiers@ymail.com) and I will setup accounts and you will be able to upload.

[Spirit]

It's all about sharing, just start with the ones you can do and share them.

I just noticed that the Hotel uses mixed case filenames which means HELL. It worked fine on Windows but I was about to upload it (from Linux when a quick last check revealed the terrible truth...). That will be fun to fux.

[scar3crow]

Nice typo Spirit.

And yeah, though hosting is great, the most urgent thing is to get the sites downloaded, and in a zip and shared.

I plan on doing a big pull of them, and storing them in a "incomplete" folder, and then migrating them to an inprogress folder for while I'm fixing all the links, and then move them to a completed archive for when they are fully localized.

Basically, get the sites, get their files, and get them stored somewhere now, localize later (could just be later that afternoon, I'm just saying, the slower work can wait).

I might be getting some overtime (which coincidentally means less time to do this) so I might look into getting a decently large external for this project.

[QuakeSoldiers]

Sorry, I should have specified. I have pulled down about 70% of the lists that were posted above. I am fixing links and uploading to QuakeSoldiers while WinHTTrack is sucking them down.

As I mentioned, I will be zipping the sites and posting links for the zips later today. It's my day off, so I have the ability to spend the next 8 or so hours archiving.

[CocoT]

[leileilol]

[Chip]

[CocoT]

[MauveBib]

[scar3crow]

[QuakeSoldiers]

I agree on the zero bias point. What the Quake Community has brought to gaming and to the net is something we will likely never see for another game. Sure, there are lots of gaming communities out there, but how many keep kickin 14 years later?

I have the luxury of being able to host as much as I want on QuakeSoldiers and that is my plan. Will I get some sites that other people consider "crap" ? Sure, I probably will. My only concern is stepping in where IGN is stepping out. Some of the hosted sites are just obscure enough that a lot of the newer gamers haven't seen them. I've been playing Quake and lurking in the community since 1996 and I have already come across a couple of sites that I had never seen before. Everything has value, maybe not to you, maybe not to me, but there's value in it to someone. As such, it should all be saved if the ability to save it exists.

Just my $1.99

For those interested, my list of archived sites is still growing ()

[goldenboy]

This is a remarkable effort.

Does anyone know if other communities are doing the same? Quake2, for example? Isn't that saveworthy, too? (Even if everybody hated Q2, this would be an opportunity to just be nice and save their ass, too.)

[QuakeSoldiers]

goldenboy

I intend on saving everything related to Quake. If it's hosted on IGN and it's Quake related...I will add it to QuakeSoldiers.com

If there is anyone that wants to help me, my yahoo messgender is: quakesoldiers@ymail.com

I don't have an automated subdomain creator as of yet, but if someone messages me the site they are mirroring, I will create the account and they can upload via ftp.

www.QuakeSoldiers.com

[Lardarse]

[leileilol]