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allbingo2018-09-01 10:51 pm
ysabetwordsmith) wrote in allbingo2018-09-01 10:51 pm
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Bingo Card Generator Down
EDIT 9/2/18: It seems to be back up. \o/
The Bingo Card Generator is down. It was fine last night when I made the Cottoncandy public card and my personal card. I tried sending a message tomagibrain but I don't know if he's still on Dreamwidth. Does anyone else have recent contact info?
In case the site cannot be retrieved, I have some prompt lists saved, though nowhere near all of them. Others may be excavated from posts or other people's files. Does anyone have the coding ability to write a similar generator? Because running this site without that would be really hard. It was the one thing that gave us a tremendous advantage over individually themed bingo communities -- we didn't have to hand-make every card, and we had a ton of saved prompt lists that anyone could use.
The Bingo Card Generator is down. It was fine last night when I made the Cottoncandy public card and my personal card. I tried sending a message to
magibrain but I don't know if he's still on Dreamwidth. Does anyone else have recent contact info?In case the site cannot be retrieved, I have some prompt lists saved, though nowhere near all of them. Others may be excavated from posts or other people's files. Does anyone have the coding ability to write a similar generator? Because running this site without that would be really hard. It was the one thing that gave us a tremendous advantage over individually themed bingo communities -- we didn't have to hand-make every card, and we had a ton of saved prompt lists that anyone could use.
Re: Thank you!
What I'll do to start is look to put my code and lists in a public repository (e.g. GitHub) - that will mean that even if something happens to me you should be able to recover all the lists (and the codebase if you have someone who wants a starting point). Then I'll add all your existing lists from Magibrain to the repository as well. That way you'll have a backup of all the existing data that isn't dependent upon a single person keeping something going - it won't add future lists, but at least it will be a start.
Then I'll start looking into implementing some of the things from your Wishlist above - and figuring out some kind of automated backup process so that prompt lists can't get lost again.