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I tried to email Sean Ewington about the future of the website, and the mail was undeliverable. He's in my contacts, so the address was accurate.
This is unfortunate. Like a thieves in the night, everyone is suddenly gone.  
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You have to call his name three times.
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... while holding the right hand behind the back and crossing the index finger and middle finger 
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But don't do that while looking into a mirror!
"A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants"
Chuckles the clown
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HtCW, being a witch, is impervious to those mirror tricks. :-p
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Do you think CP is dying ? I've been here for a long time and would miss it like f*ck
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I hope not, but all the staff are AWOL, and the email addresses are gone. I can't get ahold of anyone. I talked to Ken Sharkey and he doesn't know what's going on.
All I know for sure is Chris retired. But it looks like the site may be going down. I wish they would talk to us.
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Without any inside information, my bet is Chris and team cashed their chips and sold to a big corporation - after all CP should be a fairly valuable piece of web real-estate - and now the new owners are scratching their heads how to integrate this new thing in their corporate profile. Maybe someone has already found that it fits like a square peg in a round hole.
If my scenario is right, I'd say well done for Chris, Dave, Mathew and the whole team! They've done an awesome work over the years and deserve their reward.
The scenario is consistent with the complete lack of communication as they could be bound by some NDAs and the new owners still don't know what to say.
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A very good guess. If true, the new owners should heed what members have to say on things like the handling of spam, moderation, and the approval of (and assistance with) articles. CP's culture is far better than most and could easily be damaged.
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I've begun the (painful) work to save all of my CP articles to my local drive.
(Since I've seen no answer in Bugs & Sugs to OG's message)
I must say I am very happy to see that downloading the HTML automatically downloads the associated article images.
Who else has started this work? Anyone? Maybe better stop procrastinating. 
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It should be fun if everyone starts doing it. 
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I haven't done articles, but I've backed up all the code to BitBucket or GitHub years ago. Not that I'd use that code these days (I've learned more stuff) but still...
I'd say just use https://archive.org/ but it's offline. 
Jeremy Falcon
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Yeah, most of my code is at GitHub but I've found some that is not.
I've got just about all of the relevant articles I want backed up now.
The thing is, I honestly wrote articles & shared them so that later I could refer to them via CP links.
CP was supposed to be my backup. What now?!
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Perhaps OneDrive or GoogleDrive could help?
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raddevus wrote: I honestly wrote articles & shared them so that later I could refer to them via CP links.
That's part of why I do too.
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Yeah but your code is worth sharing (with others).
Mine, I feel, is just worth keeping (for myself).
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Thanks. I figure if it's important enough I have it on github.
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Am also thinking of rep points. They'll all vanish into thin air.
More importantly, have bookmarked several articles. Now, going through all those bookmarks, and downloading what I feel are important, is also a time-consuming exercise.
modified 11hrs 10mins ago.
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Amarnath S wrote: thinking of rep points. They'll all vanish into thin air.
I was thinking about the same thing. It's kind of a bummer.
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rep points
In some deep corner of the mind was the hope that it would one day get converted into cash. 
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I've been saving (locally) articles for years. Rep points? That's just a game IMO.
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I don't plan to. I just have too many articles. Even thinking about backing them up freaks me out. 
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honey the codewitch wrote: Even thinking about backing them up freaks me out
I know it's quite painful.
But most of my articles I wrote so I'd remember the content better and so I could refer back to them.
I've referred to my article on SQLLocalDb tool usage (Dev's User Guide To SqlLocalDb (Sql Express)[^]) numerous times over the years.
I definitely grabbed that one.
I also wrote 5 chapters of Electronics For Makers which exists here an nowhere else.
Backing them up isn't too bad, if you,
1. go to search & search for your author name (that'll give you a list of your articles in reverse chrono order (newest first)
2. open each one in a new tab
3. click "get html for article"
4. save as
Not too bad.
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But there's the code and everything too. It's not all on github, although i think most is
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honey the codewitch wrote: But there's the code and everything too
Yeah, the code is the one challenge. The save as saves the css, html and even the individual images but not the code. Kind of a pain.
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