Miiverse clones were never very archiveable in the first place since viewing any posts past the first 50 in a community required JavaScript to run. That’s my theory, though.
Does anyone who used the site even WANT it to come back? I certainly don’t, I struggle to think of people who would even know their username and password after 5 whole years or even more of dormancy.
None of this is even bringing up what happened with the closed.pizza domain. I don’t think I’ll ever have it back. And, honestly, learning that has damaged my morale for most ideas I had.
Q: What happened to the closed.pizza domain?
Since closed.pizza’s closure, as one would imagine, the domain switched owners from time to time. I was still the owner of the domain itself (even if I wasn’t the owner of the site) until October 2019.
In January of 2020, someone bought it, and it eventually got transferred to PF2M, where he bought it for a few years until it expired in 2022.
… That’s when the nightmare began. After that point, some motherf*cking *ssholes named EDOMS scalped the domain and won’t sell it back to me for any less than $500. Would you pay that? That’s barely more than I made in ad revenue for the entire lifetime of the site, roughly $670.
Don’t worry, that fact isn’t worth much since my dad, who effectively forced me to implement ads, in a conversation that ended with my brother inviting me to his basement to code the ad functionality with him before he had to leave and literally left me there where I got it implemented after that *ss hole left, 😡😡😡, my DAD is the one who pocketed all of the money. Sure he paid my bills, only if I asked him really nicely, but he made more than twice as much as all of the site costs. Sigh…
Q: What happened to the images on the site?
Just like cloud providers, Closedverse has switched and swapped around image hosts, transitioning between Cloudinary and self-hosting. And, what we ended on, was Cloudinary.