Comment on ROMhacking.net shuts down after 20 years; database has been moved to the Internet Archive

capt_wolf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• bassomitron@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Yeesh, I’ve never used the website but that NightCrawler person seems like they have some serious control problems. The fact that the whole community was willing to chip in/pay for it and take it over and the admin still refused to cooperate is pretty shitty. At least it looks like someone managed to convince the admin to let them host and takeover the site’s wiki.

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  • Ashtear@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    This is oddly common in ROM hacking/mod scenes. There’s been no shortage of drama in the Fire Emblem and Final Fantasy Tactics communities, too.

    At the very least I wish people would consider the bus test once a site gets to a certain critical mass.

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• Peffse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I really hope that tcrf doesn’t take over. I STILL can’t contribute to that website because it requires you to sign up for Discord and agree to Discord’s ToS just to paste some stupid code into their bot.

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  • capt_wolf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Wait are you talking cutting room? I had no idea they did that. Very weird for a site that’s just copying Wikipedia.

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    • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Copying Wikipedia? Where did you get that from? They have loads of content, including stuff like text dumps, that you’d never see on Wikipedia.

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      • capt_wolf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I mean the format, it’s a generic wiki formatting. Not referring to the actual content. The content they have is awesome.

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• doctortran@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  after some further research, it became apparent that Discord staff could save a significant amount of money by changing S3 providers. The new bucket was set up, but when the time came to make the change NC refused to do it, even though he was not the one footing the bill.

  There’s a conspicuous absence of explain why they wouldn’t do it. What were their actual concerns? Did they not voice them or are they just being withheld?

  NC refused to join the Discord to talk about solutions in real-time.

  Why was this a requirement?

  Did we vent in private? Sure.

  And what did you say?

  Did we dox or threaten? Fucking hell, no! And frankly I’m LIVID at even the suggestion that we did.

  Well something clearly happened if he’s family was brought into it, so if you’re going to skimp on the details, I’m not sure how I’m supposed to believe that.

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