DS-Scene down? dead?

[Rydian]

How can a subdomain still be active, if the main domain is expired?

While the whole "a subdomain is just a redirect-to folder on the main one" trick is very common, it's not actually the way true subdomains work!

Unfortunately everybody and their grandmother just uses the redirect trick since it's free, so I've no experience with true subdomains.

 

[raulpica]

While the whole "a subdomain is just a redirect-to folder on the main one" trick is very common, it's not actually the way true subdomains work!

Unfortunately everybody and their grandmother just uses the redirect trick since it's free, so I've no experience with true subdomains.

You're telling me that subdomains are actually real domains just using a common part of the domain name to link them togheter

wat

 

[Rayder]

Hmm...didn't even notice they were down until this thread. Ah well, things change all the time.......

 

[Rydian]

You're telling me that subdomains are actually real domains just using a common part of the domain name to link them togheter

wat

Sort of. It's like how "examplesite.co.uk" is not an actual domain, but a subdomain... but most people will treat like a domain (and in fact they're sold as if they were domains) anyways because that's how people treat addresses and domain names nowadays so it never even comes up.

In most cases a host gives one domain, and then the person will make fake subdomains by simply telling the server software (via cpanel, etc.) to redirect requests to subfolders. This is what's usually done in the modern internet because it's generally assumed that any subdivisions of a specific domain will want to be run by the same person so most hosting places don't even show subdomain or domain splitting options by default.

Anyways there's other ways to run it as well, but seeing as I've only had experience with the redirect-to-a-folder kind, I can't say what's up in this specific case. Generally the second-most-common type is simply having subdomains point to different physical machines, but this is a service case, not a machine/outage case.

 

[Whizz]

How can a subdomain still be active, if the main domain is expired?

Magic

 

[WiiUBricker]

How can a subdomain still be active, if the main domain is expired?

Either what Rydian said or Godaddy's automatic domain cancel function is buggy.

 

[Foxi4]

They stopped giving a damn about homebrew a long time ago and made themselves out to be a pseudo-rom site and even had clickable links with the rom archive name on there to attract visitors. When the commercial releases all but stopped, they ran out of anything interesting to talk about. It died.

...what?

First of all, each and every archive name you click on informs you that the site doesn't host ROM's. This was to prevent new users from requesting them since the first instinct is to click the archive name, not to write a forum post. Second of all, DS-Scene never stopped caring about homebrew - not sure where you got that info from.

 

[JulietStMoon]

each and every archive name you click on informs you that the site doesn't host ROM's. This was to prevent new users from requesting them since the first instinct is to click the archive name, not to write a forum post.

That's FUCKING GENIUS!! Why doesn't GBAtemp do that???

 

[Rydian]

Well we don't have proper scene lists right now, and a one-time 'popup' when you visit the forums where you need to type something like "There are no ROMs on GBATemp" was discussed (you used to have to type it to sign up)... But getting something done around here is like... man, I can't even find a decent simile.

 

[LDAsh]

...what? ...DS-Scene never stopped caring about homebrew - not sure where you got that info from.

Pretty straightforward - I got that info from over the last couple of years, homebrew after homebrew after homebrew getting absolutely no mention whatsoever, whereas every commercial release were posted in much the speedy fashion, just for people to post "downloaded it, played it, beat it, NEXT!!!", "well I was totally going to buy it, but, you know, I beat it already, you know... *shrugs* NEXT!!!"

The logic goes - "We make it look like we host roms - just to tell people off about wanting roms..." Hmmmm ookee.

 

[AsPika2219]

RIP.... DS-Scene.......

 

[ProtoKun7]

Intriguing; I seem to recall it was down in another capacity a while ago too, but not like this.

Wouldn't surprise me if it doesn't come back, but I haven't checked forward yet.

 

[Xenirina]

Yeah, for those who have noticed, DS-Scene is dead at the moment.
We're still here, but it's just taking time to renew the site as retro is off in fairy land.

I'll notify you lot when it's back up.
And then I'll post all the missing releases etc. I have a massive backlog.

 

[Xenirina]

Back onto the topic... WE'RE STILL ALIVE!
retro seems to be away and he hasn't renewed the domain.

For now, I'll post everything on the Wii.DS-Scene site of things, and then just move it all across when we get back online.

 

[raulpica]

Threads merged.

 

[EZ-Megaman]

Back onto the topic... WE'RE STILL ALIVE!

But the IRC says it's dead...
Only temporarily?

 

[AsPika2219]

FINALLY!!!

DS-Scene website is back online!!!

 

[Sicklyboy]

We can all sleep easily again.

 

[Foxi4]

Oh, goodie! I'm glad it isn't gone.

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

Yaaay....?