Bingo Card Generator Down

[ysabetwordsmith]

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 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.

Comments

Re: Thank you!

[purplecat]

I have two paper deadlines on Wednesday and a job interview on Friday so nothing will happen before then and thankfully your existing tool is back up again I see. However, obviously long term it wouldn't hurt to have a back up.

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.