so if ilx is shutting down, should we move this somewhere else?

n.b. if ilx has been saved in the past couple days disregard. but i haven't had time to read ILE and keep up(, thank god).

I think Jaq has been looking into possibilities.

Last I heard money had been raised but nothing had settled yet.

yeah, i tried to start this on ... friday? thursday? ... it's been an odd weekend ... but i was getting poxy-fuled up the wazoo.

i just thought there might as well be a thread for this, also i think a couple people here don't read ILE proper? they might just be non-posters, though. (like myself, really.)

i know a couple people who i think could host an interim board, if that turned necessary. that said it's looking less likely for it to be so, and there's probably a couple people here who could host one themselves. there's not that many of us.

i guess i'm also kind of curious: who here thinks this board benefits specifically from its being attached to ILX?

Tom, I'm playing with some stuff this weekend, starting with ILCooking, but I think it will scale okay to ILBooks too. If need be. As C. notes, the money's been raised for a year of hosting on an okay platform, but there will be some other costs/etc. involved. The initial plan is to keep the current codebase active, just hosted elsewhere, while a team of volunteers undertake writing new code.

I'm not sure about specific benefits of being attached to ILX, but that community makes up the majority of posters here (a general impression, I haven't actually counted). When I first found ILX, ILBooks was the only part of it I knew existed, but I think I might be out of the norm in that respect.

"that community" = ILM/ILE

It's easier for people to find ILB because it's attached to ILX, I suspect -- I imagine we get higher google rankings because of that.

i like the format but fuck everything else.

I like the format too, but I would also love it if there was some way we could be more like Freaky Trigger, really, with a discussion bit that anyone could comment on, and also a reivews/blog bit that everyone could post their separate stuff onto. Message boards thrive on conversation, and ours has dropped way off of late; although I still read a lot of the threads, I don't have as much to say about them. In my head I could see a bunch of well-read, well-spoken people like ourselves (and by ourselves I don't mean some exclusive group, I mean, you know, people who come here) building a handy online book resource. Handy for ourselves, if no-one else.

But of course not everyone cares about blogging or has time to do so, and so I'd certainly be happy with anything that more techie people decided. Just don't abandon me!

I'm way more interested in keeping things conversation than in being some sort of "book resource" -- if we become such, let it be accidental rather than an onus.

Having faced similar problems during the Greenspun era, it seems a good idea to prepare an escape route to be used In The Event Of Catastrophic Failure of ILX. However, so long as the ILX server works, it is better to stay put. The wholly non-commercial character of ILX and the first-class voluntary technical support are a difficult combination to reproduce and seem to me to be integral to the pleasantness of ILB.

Escape routes are in preparation. But we are back, hurrah!

I've been working on an ILX contingency at http://www.teqne.com/ilx/index.php

If things fall apart, everyone's welcome to move over there for the interim. I don't know about first class tech support, but it will stay non-commercial. With luck though, ILX will transition seamlessly to new digs and better code.

How lovely. The last couple of days have been v. dull on the internet front.

Chris, having thought about what I posted, I think all I really care about wrt ILB is a better search function, so that it doesn't take all day to pull up something someone said about some author I've suddenly become interested in.

If you use the "Search Using Google" option on the Search page, it's quite fast, and usually pretty good at finding things.

new place would equal no spam would equal maybe no need for registration maybe. i dunno if i have that right, tho.

Spam happens, regardless.

Yeah, message boards are quickly bespammed these days, I'm surprised ILX held out for so long!

After a worrisome hiatus, ILB and the ILX server seem to be once more up and running. One wonders for how long. I do recall one past incident of a weeklong down time, so perhaps all is not lost. I do hope matters can be put back on an even keel again.

A week? I remember three months.