I'm a bit cross about allowing or not to allow linking to the website archives.
For the time being, and while we discuss about it among the mods, I'd like to ask you to refrain from posting any link to said archive.
If we decide to allow it, I'll restore the comments containing said links I've removed.
One of the last Web 1.0 bastions in gaming. Really hate to see this, especially when Discord is around the peak of its popularity right now. Here's hoping a more future-proof alternative than that arises.
RetroAchievements has also been archiving patches for a little while but not everything, and discoverability is not great (I was using RomHacking to learn more about the patches)
I really hope that tcrf doesn't take over. I STILL can't contribute to that website because it requires you to sign up for Discord and agree to Discord's ToS just to paste some stupid code into their bot.
Yeesh, I've never used the website but that NightCrawler person seems like they have some serious control problems. The fact that the whole community was willing to chip in/pay for it and take it over and the admin still refused to cooperate is pretty shitty. At least it looks like someone managed to convince the admin to let them host and takeover the site's wiki.
This is oddly common in ROM hacking/mod scenes. There's been no shortage of drama in the Fire Emblem and Final Fantasy Tactics communities, too.
At the very least I wish people would consider the bus test once a site/project gets to a certain critical mass. Insane to me that a site with this kind of profile never had coverage for that scenario this entire time.
Functionally speaking the distinction is negligible. Users won't be able to download patches from the site, and new patch submissions won't be accepted.
People also used RHDN as a news source to find out about new hacks and translation releases, and it was the best resource for doing that. And it sounds like it still will be going forward, so... I disagree with you on that.