PS-Scripts.com temporarily suspended?

[DBarranca]

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

[Israel Thompson]

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

[StrongBeaver]

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

[Israel Thompson]

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.

[StrongBeaver]

Is everyone on board for a new start of a Ps-scripts forum; The Photoshop Scripting Forum ?

[xbytor2]

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.

If someone does setup a replacement site, I will join and contribute where I can. What I cannot do is any admin or moderation work.

One thing that might be interesting is to populate the site with good stuff that we can recover from archive.org. Give it it's own subforum maybe called 'Archive' or something.

[Israel Thompson]

I've started the new forum here:

http://ps-scripts2.com/

It's completely RAW at the moment, but open for registration. Anyone who wants to jump on board as a moderator, let me know, so I can boost your status. Needs the basic forum Hierarchy to get started. I can't remember the structure of the old site.

A new visually appealing theme should be in order as well. I can probably handle that part on my own, but am open for suggestion.

Anyway... Hope to see some of you there.

Long Live The Mike Hale Legacy!

[Chuck Uebele]

I might be able to help. I was trying to see if Adobe was interested in setting up a sub forum on this site, just for posting short code snippets, but it doesn't look like that's going to happen. There has been talk about doing something on Github as well.

As far as the old ps-scripts.com site, that is gone. the site has been deleted and all that's left is what is on archive.org.

[boo_radley_2013]

ps-scripts was a goldmine of code... it's all gone? If so, that would be a catastrophe.. surely it must be backed up somewhere?

[Chuck Uebele]

It's backed up on archive.org, but nothing is searchable.

[Heimdaal]

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

[Heimdaal]

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]

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.

[DBarranca]

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

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[Kukurykus]

For new comers who'd like to learn advanced scripting you can use it again:

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