No (well--maybe)...a moderator (whom I won't name) from a Stardock forum (not Sins) got into slapfight with the Soase Weebly creator and censored him in unrelated posts--so he took the site down in angry protest.  Moderator's need diplomacy, finesse, maturity and a cool head and unfortunately not all have these traits.

So I am told.  I have no idea if he wiped the site to zero or can or will restore it.

I think it was a regrettable choice but I understand the feeling.  It was his (mostly) work and he had the freedom to do it.

The SoaSE Wiki is still available as it is run separately.  Not as thorough regarding modding--though many posts that were on the Weebly can be found scattered through the forums.

Ugh. Way to set the table for future Sins modders.

No, but Harpo maintains a post in the modding section with the up to date reference files along with his converter program.

I suspect it will be back up eventually once feelings cool a little. The most important documentation is in the forge tools anyways (Myfist just enhanced it with nice links), and there is always the "Modders Get an Answer Thread" until its restored.

Actually its "Peace is a dream we've had for a long time".

-TEC Envoy

Or you could just edit your original post and claim Goa is going crazy....

wow, this stinks, that site was influential in getting me started with modding just two short weeks ago!

filosoft, I am not intending to disappear, but with the force steam to install and update, even for those of us that do NOT online play, and having no trust for steam/valve( i rate them just worse than stopgames which I do NOT trust) means I will probably not move to rebellion even though I have already pre-ordered, and am considering a cancel of pre-order due to the sforced steam issue.

harpo

Stay Harpo.  Who else's work can we leech so much off of?

Ugh... Thanks Harpo for your help and such.

I might just PM the creator of the weebly (who I shall not name, I figured it out, if STARDOCK ADMIN wants to know then he/she can PM me) and see if he'll put it back up.

why won't you guys mention the mod that caused this?

Is it not the point of the weebly site going down, to prove to that moderator that he is less useful than the fans that drive the mod community - upon which he so un-righteously has applied his wrath in excess?

If no one says who this idiot is, then how can we expect to ever get the weebly site back up? And if we don't get the weebly site back up, how are we supposed to do anything useful in the mod community?

What a tragedy. And what blasphemy that you all protect the complete a$$hat that caused this at the cost of ruining potential mod creations. Drama is something fostered, and you people certainly partake in it just as much as the two that started the fight. Do something useful, and give us a name - so that we may seek justice for the wrong doing........

A moderator only has as much power as the community allows him to have. And if a moderator is fist-fighting with words on the community forum, I think it's something that should be brought attention, not shoved under the rug.

jesus...

Well the webpage has a meta redirect pointing to soase.x90x.net , and x90x.net is not running an active apache service. It still has the domain registrant active, some dude in amsterdam running a webhost service - who is no longer maintaining the HTTP service.

So that explains the lack of proper redirect. It is quite possible that the x90 site would be working, if the apache service was running.

The soase.weebly site still has all the css and javascript that the page normally contains (as compared to cached version) - standard weebly page includes , with code appearing to be dropped into the body. So it opens body tag, and drops a new html def including even a doctype, with its own head and body, like a webpage inside a webpage. So whoever did that clearly is either not a web developer, or did something funky using weebly (like dragging a page and dropping it into the frontpage).

Which lends me to think that it wasn't hacked, but was intentionally brought down. I've never seen a hacked site where the intruder dropped an entire html files code inside of the body tag of another html file. It's just not practical.

Well... I for one wish someone who knows who Mr weebly is, would contact him in regards to this matter. Chances are very good that he is actively checking the forums, for if he had been pushed that far to actually affect an entire community, he is certainly interested in how his actions have affected said community. And it indeed has.

Edit:

Check this out: http://soase.weebly.com/uploads/4/6/1/9/4619843/playerpictures-tec.tga  (thank you google)

So this means that some of the data files are still there. Just need to remember all the url's, and we could reconstruct his webpage using his hosted files. If the data files are still there, it's possible the html & php files are too.