Legend

Answered

PS-Scripts.com temporarily suspended?

Forum|Forum|10 years ago
May 18, 2015
13 replies
8161 views

Hi,

I've run into this page when trying to visit good old ps-scripts.com:

Never seen anything similar over the years - has anyone some news about it?

Thanks!

Davide

This topic has been closed for replies.

Correct answer DBarranca

I'm afraid Mike L. Hale passed away September 9, 2014:

In Memory of Michael Hale -- James A. McAlister Funeral Home, Charleston, SC

In the above page it's written that Mike has been "...a contributor to ADOBE Photoshop and led an international photo scripting forum" so little doubt about his identity.

As many others here, I owe him a lot - really sad news. He'll be missed...

Let's wait for X - I'm sure it is *not* impossible to put together a small group of people willing to maintain (and hopefully recover) the ps-scripts archive. Please count me in.

D.

H

Heimdaal

Inspiring

Replying to Davide here but these are open questions to everyone:
What is the current status? Did anyone recover the old database? I see that ps-scripts2.com never took off, which indicates that either there isn't a large enough interest in this or people are already hanging around elsewhere.

Chuck Uebele

Community Expert

AFAIK, I don't think the database has been recovered. The scripting community is fairly small, so it's difficult to get enough people involved. The new site could still work, but it needs more input: people posting helpful scripts and more exposure for people to find it. I've been very busy lately, so I haven't done anything with the new site. I'll have to see if I can start populating it with some snippets that I've written that have been helpful.

DBarrancaAuthor

Legend

No, the original forum's DB hasn't been recovered and I'd say it's officially lost forever.

We have the archive.org, unsearchable snapshot. Unless somebody very talented knows a way to seek through it and find a way to rebuild the DB from the snapshot via scripting of some sort, it's gone.

Starting a V2 is a huge amount of work, and it can't be a solo project, so hat off to everybody who tries (I did my own attempts in the past, but as everybody else I've a job and a life that don't allow me too much extra time).

FYI, there's also a new project that has been launched very recently here: ExtendScript · GitHub and looks quite interesting, give it a look.

Davide Barranca

http://htmlpanelsbook.com

H

Heimdaal

Inspiring

I'm very sorry to hear that Mike passed away. I really enjoyed that forum and all the time that he and so many user invested there, and it would be a shame if all that code is lost

Israel Thompson

Inspiring

I will host the site, if someone wants to help me manage the forums.

StrongBeaver

Legend

What is required for managing the forum ? The site is coming back or it's not official ?

Israel Thompson

Inspiring

Basically, what I'm offering, is to host a new PS-scripts related forum on my server. The forum would simply be a forum like all others. Management includes moderating, answering questions, etc. Also, forum admins would have access to make backups of the forum database to third party locations, so if anything were to ever happen the forum would live on. From what I gather most of the old content is gone other than archived sites, but if any bits and pieces of it are retrievable, those willing to help could add it to the forum.

xbytor2, I know you were one of the top contributors on the old site. Is starting a new forum something you'd be on board with? It'd probably be pointless without your support.

S

sftrane

Participant

RIP Mike. Your work has truly benefited us all, and you will be greatly missed. I would gladly be willing to help out to preserve Mike's legacy and get something up and running for people to post to again. I'll keep my eyes on this post for details to see when there are any updates, and if there is anything I can do to help.

StrongBeaver

Legend

The odds are it's gone forever, except archives.

Chuck Uebele

Community Expert

Davide has been making some headway into downloading the old site to a format that is searchable. He's spent a lot of time on this, and I certainly appreciate his efforts!!!

diegom2

Participating Frequently

Sad news, I hope that all the valuable info can be saved, and hopefully bring back ps-scripts. That is the least we can do for Mike.

Let me know if I can help somehow.

Chuck Uebele

Community Expert

The information is available on Archive.org. If you type in ps-scripts.com, you can select a date and the site pops up and is navigable. Gary Coyne and I tested this the other night at a meeting we were attending. We are also trying to work out something for the Adobe scripts forum to have a reference section or maybe something of github or both.

DBarrancaAuthor

Legend

Update:

after a long phone call with GoDaddy support last week, I've been told that the entire website content has been permanently deleted by the end of May 2015.

Conversely, the domain ps-scripts.com is still registered to Mike Hale until May 2016.

So, either Mike's relatives (that xbytor is trying to get in touch with) can provide his own personal backups - which would be out-of-date, September 2014 or possibly earlier - so that we can try to restore a functional phpBB forum and database on another domain, or I'm afraid we can visit the archive.org shapshot linked by xbytor in a previous post (up-to-date to May 2015), but only as a reference - no new posts, no search, no logins, basically the server side doesn't exists on archive.org AFAIK.

Forum moderators and people from Adobe are aware of this and are currently evaluating ways to preserve Mike's legacy.

Davide

P

PS-Guru

Known Participant

Thanks Davide!

B

boo_radley_2013

Inspiring

Mike offered me so much help on the scripting forums on this site - all quite recently. He was a genius. I feel like I was reading his posts here just a few weeks ago. Terrible news.

J

j_forrester

Participating Frequently

Very sad news indeed!

Mike helped me out a few times a couple of years back. Not only was he extremely patient with my lack of scripting experience, but he went the extra mile to talk me through a number of issues I had via a headset. He seemed a very humble man when we spoke and someone who did what he did for the love of helping others. I'm sure he will be missed greatly, I really hope that all the hard work Mike put into the website can continue.

P

PS-Guru

Known Participant

I’m with you on that. I do hope that the site contents were not deleted along with the account and will be able to be restored. Restoration will be a fitting tribute to Mike’s legacy.

X

xbytor2

Inspiring

Update:

Mike did not leave behind access information to his hosting site's account and I have not been successful at convincing them turn the site back on long enough to get a backup of the site.

I am trying to get in touch with someone in his family to see if he left instructions to handle this situation.

I will let the community know if we are able to make in progress in reviving the site.

In the meantime, there is this:

ps-scripts.com • Index page

C

cromaline

Participating Frequently

So sad for that bad news.

It is right to keep M.Hale's memory for the great generosity towards the community .His skills and his support has been an unevaluable treasure . He did so much for us all . I hope someone will be able to recover and continue all his great work . For my part I can only say: count on me to be an annual subscriber.

Giuliana

c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

Sad »news«, Mike’s generous help and advice made the Fora better places.

Show more replies

Sign up

To post, reply, or follow discussions, please sign in with your Adobe ID.

Sign in to Adobe Community

To post, reply, or follow discussions, please sign in with your Adobe ID.

Scanning file for viruses.

This file cannot be downloaded