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Re:Special.fish by cookingoils on Saturday June 06, 2020 @03:09AM (#23437394)
Hey there, sorry that the site is down! Looking at getting things up and running asap. Special Fish is a small community website so it wasn't built to scale lol. For now, as mentioned by @bertman, you can browse an archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20200420171359/https://special.f... Thanks Wayback Machine!
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Re:Special.fish by flanbiscuit on Saturday June 06, 2020 @11:38AM (#23439892)
> Special Fish is a place for exploring logs and lists. You could think of Special Fish as a public word processor. Usually rtf/txt files just sit on a users computer. Special makes those documents into a social network.

Can you elaborate more on this? What do you mean by making text files on my computer into a social network? Is that just a metaphor or are you actually doing something like that?

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Re:Special.fish by cookingoils on Saturday June 06, 2020 @12:13PM (#23440175)
It's more of a metaphor for how to think about/approach the site. Logs and lists are stored in a centralized db so nothing new happening behind the scenes. Supporters are able to download their content as txt files, so you could use it as an online version of TextEdit.
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Re:Special.fish by cookingoils on Saturday June 06, 2020 @09:23AM (#23439011)
Cached version of the site is up again. Working on clearing up auth issues now. Stay tuned...

Update: Okay we are back! Implementing more caching but should be working for now.

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Re:Special.fish by gpiancastelli on Saturday June 06, 2020 @12:28PM (#23440304)
Is Random now cached? I always stumble upon the same guy.
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Re:Special.fish by cookingoils on Saturday June 06, 2020 @12:39PM (#23440388)
Thanks for reporting. Should be fixed now.
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