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== January 2020 outage == |
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Yes, the .top version is now offline so it didn't last very long. It is unclear why this has happened and the site faces another period of uncertainty. '''''] <sup>]</sup>''''' 07:29, 9 June 2024 (UTC) |
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Re : The site is down at the moment. is a screenshot of the error message. This indicates that the problem is with ED's server rather than Cloudflare's hosting. It's too early to say how long this problem will last, or to pronounce the last rites. The site was offline for around six weeks in August-October 2019 before returning.--'''''] <sup>]</sup>''''' 18:55, 15 January 2020 (UTC) |
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:It's back, and according to the Dramatica forum, "] suspended the domain." So off we go with a new domain, with .top holding the record for the shortest tenure at less than a month.--'''''] <sup>]</sup>''''' 18:02, 9 June 2024 (UTC) |
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::Re . ED currently has two domains, edramatica.com which was registered on 9 June 2024, and dramatica.wtf which was registered on 13 May 2024 and is also being used for the forums. Since edramatica.com seems to be the main address and dramatica.wtf is a mirror, the article should give edramatica.com as the address per ].--'''''] <sup>]</sup>''''' 10:00, 10 June 2024 (UTC) |
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:The website's owner is in jail. It might stay down unless someone creates a mirror. ] (]) 01:53, 16 January 2020 (UTC) |
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:::Re : edramatica.com is down at the moment, but it is unclear whether this is a temporary blip or something more serious.--'''''] <sup>]</sup>''''' 15:28, 17 June 2024 (UTC) |
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:According to ED's facebook account the sysop is currently in jail facing felony forgery charges and has been unable to pay for the servers. They're also the only ones with access so this could be the end. ] (]) 04:31, 16 January 2020 (UTC) |
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::::I'm an ED regular, and I saw it go down live. When it went down, edramatica.com was replaced with a page that said, "So Don't Do That Then... (This domain has been terminated for abuse)", so I think it's safe to believe that edramatica.com has been suspended by EasyDNS. ] (]) 17:23, 17 June 2024 (UTC) |
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:::::Thanks, there have been persistent claims in the past few weeks that domain registrars are unhappy with some of the content on ED. Freedom of speech is one thing, deliberate harassment and defamation of living people is another. Since this is all part of the fun (cough, cough) at ED, it leaves them with the difficult task of finding a new domain and web host.--'''''] <sup>]</sup>''''' 18:07, 17 June 2024 (UTC) |
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*And thanks to the wonders of the ], we can see the termination message . It does indeed say "So Don't Do That Then... (This domain has been terminated for abuse)" as a message from ], complete with a dead skeleton pirate. At this rate ED will end up as a ] only, because no domain will have them.--'''''] <sup>]</sup>''''' 18:18, 17 June 2024 (UTC) |
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*:The forums at also seem to be down, as all I get is an error message saying "Page could not be loaded". (On other devices I tried, the website won't even load at all and just says "DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN") ] (]) 22:37, 17 June 2024 (UTC) |
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:They are now on encyclopediadramatica.gay, which was registered with ] on 17 June 2024. So let's see how long this lasts, they have had three new domains in little over a month.--'''''] <sup>]</sup>''''' 07:01, 18 June 2024 (UTC) |
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::That might not be the wisest choice, per the ] section of the ] article. I don't know, we'll just have to wait and see how long this one will last for. ] (]) 11:57, 18 June 2024 (UTC) |
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:::OT, but i'm surprised to see ED able to registed the .gay domain at all. ] (]) 11:20, 26 June 2024 (UTC) |
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::The .gay website now redirects to edramatica.com, which is working again. ] (]) 22:34, 25 August 2024 (UTC) |
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===.win domain=== |
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::Thanks for pointing this out. ED has survived various ups and downs in the past, but this one looks particularly challenging. The site would need a completely fresh start on the hosting, which is not impossible but would be difficult. The Facebook post isn't a reliable source but it looks as though there are big problems.--'''''] <sup>]</sup>''''' 09:06, 16 January 2020 (UTC) |
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Re : It's true that the site is up and running at .win, but it is also up and running at .gay at the time of writing. This leads to a problem with ] as usually only one URL is given.--'''''] <sup>]</sup>''''' 07:01, 16 July 2024 (UTC) |
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:.gay is the current official domain and hosts both the Encyclopedia Dramatica Forums and the wiki. .win is an unauthorized copy of the site that was made by a disgruntled former wiki sysop. The .win site doesn't even have a forum because the guy who runs it never even had a copy of the forum database (although he tried to beg the owner of .gay for the database). |
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:No one of any importance from .online or any of the previous domains is using .win, they are all on .gay. ] (]) 00:40, 19 July 2024 (UTC) |
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:::Re : As I've said, a Facebook post/comment doesn't really constitute a reliable source on Misplaced Pages. It may well be that the site has run into big problems and has gone offline permanently, but there is a small chance that it might return. Even the ED diehards think that the site is now defunct, but the future is a long time.--'''''] <sup>]</sup>''''' 07:43, 17 January 2020 (UTC) |
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::::There are some interesting tweets but again they don't count as a reliable source. It's also worth noting that the official ED Twitter account https://twitter.com/eddotse now says "Account suspended" - not sure when or why this happened. The theme of the tweets and the Facebook comments is a ], in other words, does ED have enough admins and backups of the site to come back from this? Maybe it's too early to say, and my hope is that a reliable source somewhere will comment on this. It would be a pity if ED died and no-one in the mainstream media attended the funeral.--'''''] <sup>]</sup>''''' 16:40, 17 January 2020 (UTC) |
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::The main pages of .gay and .win are different, so they are not a complete mirror. Also, .win does not have the forums which are only on .gay. So it does look like .win is an unofficial mirror and not endorsed by the people at .gay.--'''''] <sup>]</sup>''''' 07:12, 21 July 2024 (UTC) |
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:::::That thread says that no one wants to take the helm due to the potential of social repercussions. Also I doubt the media would “attend the funeral” because of the way the site died. 8Chan got the coverage it did because it got deplatformed in response to two mass shootings that were connected to the site. 8Chan died with a bang while ED slowly fizzled out. ] (]) 14:16, 19 January 2020 (UTC) |
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::::::Re : One of the reasons for the revert is that people have pronounced the last rites on ] many times after raids, trials, domain and hosting problems etc; but it is still going, while many other torrent sites have fallen by the wayside. I agree that it doesn't look good for ED at the moment, but there is a small possibility that it might return if someone has a working backup. Also, we are stuck with the problem that tweets, Facebook posts etc are not a reliable source because anyone can say anything they like in them and they are not subject to ].--'''''] <sup>]</sup>''''' 09:08, 21 January 2020 (UTC): |
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:::::::Can someone add that the owner of the .se domain got arrested? --] (]) 09:58, 21 January 2020 (UTC) |
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::::::::Not really, if the only source is a tweet or Facebook post. Sorry folks, I don't make the rules. ED has always been secretive about who its key personnel are, and we don't even know the name of the site admin who has apparently been arrested and imprisoned while facing a federal charge of some sort. *Maybe* this will surface in the mainstream media at some stage, as it did with ].--'''''] <sup>]</sup>''''' 10:10, 21 January 2020 (UTC) |
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: Those are 'very interesting' one sided comments by both editors, hmmm, but above statement makes no sense if some ver is accepted or not... .win has more articles, also .win has more quality videos... ] (]) 16:33, 21 July 2024 (UTC) |
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::I'm not going to get drawn into an argument over which is the better or more official version, but they are not serving exactly the same content and .win does not have the forum pages.--'''''] <sup>]</sup>''''' 16:39, 21 July 2024 (UTC) |
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Shouldn't we mention the site is down since the owner of the sites have been arrested as far as I know?] (]) 02:35, 23 January 2020 (UTC) |
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:It would seem that .win is down for the count, leaving edramatica.com as the sole host of the property. The circle of life continues... ''']'''<sub> (]•])</sub> 16:02, 27 September 2024 (UTC) |
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:See the section above. I would love to be able to say something firm about why ED is down, but if it can only be sourced to a tweet or Facebook post it isn't much use. The ] and the infobox point out that ED is down in January 2020, but there needs to be better sourcing. I'm not suggesting that the ED folks are lying/hoaxing about the site admin being in prison after being arrested, but tweets and Facebook posts are not suitable sources per ].--'''''] <sup>]</sup>''''' 06:59, 23 January 2020 (UTC) |
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::It's hard to keep up with this, but at the time of writing, .gay is completely offline, while .win has a page saying "It's over - for now... Due to reasons that shall not be disclosed I will not be able to run encyclopediadramatica.win anymore - at least all on my own." This means that edramatica.com is the only working version at the moment, and thankfully we no longer have to listen to arguments about whether .win or .gay is the better version, because both of them are unavailable now.--'''''] <sup>]</sup>''''' 16:15, 27 September 2024 (UTC) |
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:::{{Reply|ianmacm}} I'm beginning to get concerned about the quality of the article, as the list of domains & owners is becoming too unwieldy for the infobox. We should probably find a way to truncate it. ''']'''<sub> (]•])</sub> 17:22, 27 September 2024 (UTC) |
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::::Agreed, I'm not sure that the infobox needs to list all of the domains that are now defunct.--'''''] <sup>]</sup>''''' 17:41, 27 September 2024 (UTC) |
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== February 2020 - encyclopediadramatica.wiki == |
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why is there no link? ] (]) 17:47, 19 November 2024 (UTC) |
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Re : It's interesting, but the site isn't up and running at the .wiki address at the moment. This is consistent with the claim that other people have backups of the site, but the article should perhaps not give .wiki as the official address until it is up and running.--'''''] <sup>]</sup>''''' 07:40, 19 February 2020 (UTC) |
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:There have been so many ups and downs in 2024 that it is hard to keep track of them all. However, the article is correct that edramatica.com is currently the only one that is online. There is also a problem with ] due to unsuitable material on the main page (harassment, ] etc).--'''''] <sup>]</sup>''''' 17:58, 19 November 2024 (UTC) |
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== New Management == |
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::I'm not sure why the user keeps deleting this as it answered the question and it's useful for other editors who might ask the same question. ] (]) 23:01, 19 November 2024 (UTC) |
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:::as of 12/20/24, edramatica.com is down with the "timed out" error, awaiting further information. ] (]) 06:51, 20 December 2024 (UTC) |
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::::IsItDownRightNow says that it has been down for over a week. This means that at the time of writing, the site is not online at all. This isn't a major panic, as ED has been offline for weeks in the past and returned. Watch this space.--'''''] <sup>]</sup>''''' 08:23, 20 December 2024 (UTC) |
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:::::Are you checking some other ED mirror? I'm taking about edramatica.com, which was back on the same day it got down, which was 12/20/24. ] (]) 18:43, 21 December 2024 (UTC) |
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::::::I couldn't access edramatica.com yesterday (20 December), but it is back online today. IsItDownRightNow agrees and says "Last down: 1 day 10 hours ago.--'''''] <sup>]</sup>''''' 20:42, 21 December 2024 (UTC) |
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== ED Downtime == |
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I came to this page to make clear that I am the current owner of <i>Encyclopedia Dramatica LLC</i> which is now registered in Nevada. I appreciate the efforts to keep this page updated and if anyone here needs to reach out or contact me I can be emailed via <b>aediot@encyclopediadramatica.wiki</b> with questions, updates or otherwise needed. |
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Thank you again to everyone involved with this page. - <b>æ admin</b> 08:01, 3 March 2020 (UTC) <!-- Template:Unsigned --><small class="autosigned">— Preceding ] comment added by ] (] • ]) </small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot--> |
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(12/23/24) ] (]) 06:49, 23 December 2024 (UTC) |
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:edramatica.com is back up. (12/23/24) ] (]) 09:56, 23 December 2024 (UTC) |
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:According to the , encyclopediadamatica.wiki is due to make its debut in 24 hours time, but as of today it is still showing a placeholder page. Watch this space.--'''''] <sup>]</sup>''''' 08:17, 3 March 2020 (UTC) |
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*And it's back online as promised at encyclopediadamatica.wiki. To coin a cliché, reports of ED's death were an exaggeration.--'''''] <sup>]</sup>''''' 07:05, 4 March 2020 (UTC) |
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::I'm relaxed about this, as ED's hosting is famously unreliable. It has been offline for days or weeks in the past.--'''''] <sup>]</sup>''''' 12:16, 23 December 2024 (UTC) |
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:::Sorry for the long delay, edramatica.com was back up the next day. ] (]) 09:06, 28 December 2024 (UTC) |
Yes, the .top version is now offline so it didn't last very long. It is unclear why this has happened and the site faces another period of uncertainty. ♦IanMacM♦ 07:29, 9 June 2024 (UTC)
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