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Title: TVTropes is Down!
Post by: Hwy 61 Revisited on July 07, 2020, 02:26:59 PM
I was looking at TVTropes today and apparently it's inaccessible. I searched for articles, but nothing came up. And worst of all, all my data there was erased, even my profile!
Title: Re: TVTropes is Down!
Post by: hotdogPi on July 07, 2020, 02:27:50 PM
I don't have an account there, but I can read it just fine.

Side note: once (and only once, out of the thousands of pages I've opened there), I got a message saying that it's the 7th article this month I have seen without ads, and it asked me to disable my ad blocker. I don't have any ad blockers, so the ads must have failed to load that one time. The article count was accurate, as it was at the beginning of the month.
Title: Re: TVTropes is Down!
Post by: Hwy 61 Revisited on July 07, 2020, 02:57:06 PM
That's odd. When I clicked on a work page (say, Finding Nemo), it said the page did not exist. When I access it now, it says:


ERROR: Unable to connect to database server!

Please contact us if the problem lasts much longer
Title: Re: TVTropes is Down!
Post by: Hwy 61 Revisited on July 07, 2020, 02:58:02 PM
Here's a sample link to check out: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Funny/DaThings1 (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Funny/DaThings1)
Title: Re: TVTropes is Down!
Post by: Stephane Dumas on July 07, 2020, 03:25:45 PM
Quote from: Hwy 61 Revisited on July 07, 2020, 02:57:06 PM
That's odd. When I clicked on a work page (say, Finding Nemo), it said the page did not exist. When I access it now, it says:


ERROR: Unable to connect to database server!

Please contact us if the problem lasts much longer


Same for me. This is the more recent archive then the Wayback machine did. https://web.archive.org/web/20200707174038/https://tvtropes.org/
TV Tropes had got some forks. https://allthetropes.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Main_Page
Title: Re: TVTropes is Down!
Post by: hotdogPi on July 07, 2020, 03:29:55 PM
I'm clicking the link and still seeing it just fine.
Title: Re: TVTropes is Down!
Post by: Hwy 61 Revisited on July 07, 2020, 08:51:55 PM
OK, it's back up.