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Now, to bring back up the specific case that TBeholder cited, Valenth |
Now, to bring back up the specific case that TBeholder cited, Valenth is/was a website. I've made the suggestion before that we treat websites as something other than works, because they are almost always repositories of multiple works, and themselves demonstrate only the smallest of trope lists with the most general of tropes, but let's ignore that for the moment.. |
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With Valenth, we're talking something that was a community with what our article claimed was some 100K members, doing some kind of [[mons]]-like thing. But that was in 2008 -- ten ''freakin''' years ago. That community and that website are ''gone, '''completely'''.'' Five minutes' checking with the Wayback Machine confirms that it wasn't just forgetting to re-up their domain reg or getting pwned -- they ''closed down'' between January and April of 2014. (Apparently with very little notice, as they were still soliciting new members on the top page in January.) This was then displayed at the website for six months: |
With Valenth, we're talking something that was a community with what our article claimed was some 100K members, doing some kind of [[mons]]-like thing. But that was in 2008 -- ten ''freakin''' years ago. That community and that website are ''gone, '''completely'''.'' Five minutes' checking with the Wayback Machine confirms that it wasn't just forgetting to re-up their domain reg or getting pwned -- they ''closed down'' between January and April of 2014. (Apparently with very little notice, as they were still soliciting new members on the top page in January.) This was then displayed at the website for six months: |
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