DizPins.com going dark soon
will the reference thing disappear?
Pin collecting hasn't been the same without dizpins and when this site disappears, our pin history and amazing amounts of information go with it.
I do! I was visiting the site and poring through the archives multiple times over the past year! It is such a treasure trove of information! But lol I know you can't keep it open just for me.I'm absolutely in agreement with this, except that nobody actually visits the site any more. The logs show that only web crawlers ever go there. Well, that and bulletin board users who link directly to the images there.
I considered moving it somewhere else, but really there's no point paying to host it any more. It's not even an issue of "what if someone else pays" -- the data just isn't being used any more.
-britt
This a thousandfold.I'm very disappointed to hear this. All the news updates, are a fabulous archive and resource. And provide a lot more context of pins and events from that era than short Pinpics listings can provide.
I do! I was visiting the site and poring through the archives multiple times over the past year! It is such a treasure trove of information! But lol I know you can't keep it open just for me.I hope - I REALLY REALLY REALLY hope though that you keep some backup of all that precious information and history. That IS our hobby from its very roots. There is no other resource like it, nor can there ever be.
Seriously, there's more legit valuable info there on pins that has disappeared from PinPics than anyone realizes.
Would TRULY TRULY love that (and would happily pay to cover the CD/DVD/shipping costs) but don't know if it's at all possible.If there was a way to put it all on a CD or DVD they could mail it to us!
This. This. This.Someday someone is going to ask what they mystery pins were all about, or pin pursuits, or non-Epcot events or Supertraders or a dozen other things, and we're not going to be able to just post a few links to Dizpins which could explain it far better than our old memories ever could.
An absolute tragedy for the community/hobby if this incredible history and resource disappears forever.Wish there was some way to preserve it all. It's seriously priceless - all that information from the dawn of pin trading. Such a loss.
Pin collecting hasn't been the same without dizpins and when this site disappears, our pin history and amazing amounts of information go with it.
I'm absolutely in agreement with this, except that nobody actually visits the site any more.
The forum closed but all the associated reference pages, news, and event info has remained accessible. Wonderful to read and impossible to replace as a history of pin collecting.I was under the impression it was long closed and thus inaccessible.
*hugs britt and sends one to figgy too* (and if you're still in touch with Joette - I send her a hug too! So many people I miss from those days!Sigh, you guuuyyyysss. You're making me feel bad. :sad:
To this day I still think it was one of the best online communities I was ever a part of. Nothing could or has replaced it. Just sayin'.Those of you who care most about dizpins should understand the drama that has surrounded that site, and why it's not a candidate for just handing off somewhere else.
Can't provide any info/suggestions - out of my area of expertise. But per hopemax's comment above - would there be any way that those of us interested in preserving the information could get a copy of it? Would be happy to pay for any related expense for cd/dvd(s)/shipping costs, etc. I don't want the info to disappear into the ether and would love to help preserve even a copy of the information in some form.Someone make a suggestion. I'm getting out of the hosting business, so I no longer have somewhere to put it. We could stash the data at a Google Site or something, but there's too much (~1GB).
There are a couple of free web hosting sites. Perhaps we can move it to one of those.
so what everyone is saying is that pinpics, the place where we keep our owns, wants, trades is going away or just the Dizpins someone let me know thanks
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