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Raven's Garage appears to be down!
Raven's Garage appears to be down!
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Hi all! Been a hot minute since I crawled out of my Zoomer Discord hole to engage with the gang over here. There's a bunch of things I want to talk about / shill, but for now I just want to focus on one pressing issue: what the heck happened to Raven's Garage, the mightiest Bubblegum Crisis fansite of them all?

I ask because back in January Skuse was announcing the site's 30th anniversary, remarking that he was now a 60-year-old man, and that he still wanted things to talk about, so email him etc etc etc. I did actually try to do this and the email didn't go through, I don't know what happened. And now the site appears to be... down? Like there's a page but it's not a real page, it's this weird 'index of' thing and then dumps anyone who clicks on the sole link buried in it to a 403 error.

So it's not that Skuse gave up on the site, I presume, unless his entire take on Raven's Garage switched between January and now and he now wishes for his work to be consigned to the void eternal. Does anyone know what happened? Am I missing something? I know plenty of people on the BGC Discord would like to see the site either revived or archived.
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RE: Raven's Garage appears to be down!
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(04-08-2025, 02:02 AM)STMPD Wrote: So it's not that Skuse gave up on the site, I presume, unless his entire take on Raven's Garage switched between January and now and he now wishes for his work to be consigned to the void eternal. Does anyone know what happened? Am I missing something? I know plenty of people on the BGC Discord would like to see the site either revived or archived.

To be saved at the Internet Archive, the pages have to be laboriously followed up thru the URL links on each page being saved.  But I guess it is now too late to do that.
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RE: Raven's Garage appears to be down!
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This link is fine

This link is fine

So is this one

That which is not dead, and all that.
Oh sweet meteor of death
Fall upon us.
Deliver us in fire
To Peace everlasting.
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RE: Raven's Garage appears to be down!
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(06-16-2025, 04:00 PM)Dartz Wrote: This link is fine

This link is fine

So is this one

That which is not dead, and all that.

Right, yeah, but me and Discord folks have notices it seems to keep going in and out. It went down, back up, then down again. It's up for now, but for how long? I know a guy on the server proposed we get in touch with Skuse and ask if he needs a bare-minimum archive just in case, and I'm thinking I might try to find a way to do it. Or just, y'know, get in contact with the guy to link the BGC Discord with his mighty institution.

(You might think the app is solely a Zoomer thing, but I know people on there who are openly middle-aged or getting there...)
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