Difference between revisions of "CuriousCat"
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| URL = {{URL|https://curiouscat.qa/}}, | | URL = {{URL|https://curiouscat.live/}}, (formerly: {{URL|https://curiouscat.qa/}}, {{URL|https://curiouscat.me/}}) | ||
| description = Twitter-supplementing Q/A site | | description = Twitter-supplementing Q/A site | ||
| logo = CuriousCat logo.png | | logo = CuriousCat logo.png | ||
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| irc = curiousincidentoftheconfusedcatinthenighttime | | irc = curiousincidentoftheconfusedcatinthenighttime | ||
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'''CuriousCat''' | '''CuriousCat''' is a question/answer hosting site for Twitter users. As far as we can tell, some time in the days before December 20, 2021, its primary domain curiouscat.qa entered the final stages of expiry, taking it offline, and a few days after, it was taken over by a squatter. A lack of activity on {{URL|https://twitter.com/curiouscatme|the site's Twitter account}}, which seems to have served as a de facto announcements page, suggests that, because it was losing money or for some other reason, it has effectively been abandoned by its owner (Vonvon). | ||
Despite the domain expiration, whatever was hosting the site has stayed up, and an upcoming project intends to capture a copy of the site by overriding Wget-Lua's DNS resolution (the same trick that was used to great effect in the [[Blog.cz]] and [[Galerie.cz]] projects). Especially in light of the squatter taking over the domain, these will not be sufficiently veracious captures to go into the Wayback Machine, but if all goes as planned the data will still be online. | Despite the domain expiration, whatever was hosting the site has stayed up, and an upcoming project intends to capture a copy of the site by overriding Wget-Lua's DNS resolution (the same trick that was used to great effect in the [[Blog.cz]] and [[Galerie.cz]] projects). Especially in light of the squatter taking over the domain, these will not be sufficiently veracious captures to go into the Wayback Machine, but if all goes as planned the data will still be online. | ||
The site returned under a new domain, curiouscat.live, on 2021-12-25, and the old primary domain curiouscat.me (which had not expired) started redirecting to that. | |||
== External links == | == External links == | ||
* {{URL|https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curious_Cat|Catalan Wikipedia article}} | * {{URL|https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curious_Cat|Catalan Wikipedia article}} | ||
Revision as of 03:47, 26 December 2021
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| URL | https://curiouscat.live/[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb], (formerly: https://curiouscat.qa/[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb], https://curiouscat.me/[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]) |
| Status | Special case |
| Archiving status | Upcoming... |
| Archiving type | DPoS |
| IRC channel | #curiousincidentoftheconfusedcatinthenighttime (on hackint) |
| Project lead | User:OrIdow6 |
CuriousCat is a question/answer hosting site for Twitter users. As far as we can tell, some time in the days before December 20, 2021, its primary domain curiouscat.qa entered the final stages of expiry, taking it offline, and a few days after, it was taken over by a squatter. A lack of activity on the site's Twitter account[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb], which seems to have served as a de facto announcements page, suggests that, because it was losing money or for some other reason, it has effectively been abandoned by its owner (Vonvon).
Despite the domain expiration, whatever was hosting the site has stayed up, and an upcoming project intends to capture a copy of the site by overriding Wget-Lua's DNS resolution (the same trick that was used to great effect in the Blog.cz and Galerie.cz projects). Especially in light of the squatter taking over the domain, these will not be sufficiently veracious captures to go into the Wayback Machine, but if all goes as planned the data will still be online.
The site returned under a new domain, curiouscat.live, on 2021-12-25, and the old primary domain curiouscat.me (which had not expired) started redirecting to that.