PlaymoDB down?

[Customizer]

Hello Friends,

 ia have a Hint for you.

At the Klickywelt the User "pranjinaldo" had teh Idea to use web.archive.org
So hier ist the Link!! It Works !!

http://web.archive.org/web/20230919162711/https://playmodb.org/playmodb.shtml

Credits to pranjinaldo for this idea.
THANKS

Greetings
Andi

[playmofire]

Hello Friends,

 ia have a Hint for you.

At the Klickywelt the User "pranjinaldo" had teh Idea to use web.archive.org
So hier ist the Link!! It Works !!

http://web.archive.org/web/20230919162711/https://playmodb.org/playmodb.shtml

Credits to pranjinaldo for this idea.
THANKS

Greetings
Andi

It works, but only in a limited way.  This link brings up all the archive available on playmodb:

http://web.archive.org/web/*/https://playmodb.org/cgi-bin/*

but even then doesn't show everything:

http://web.archive.org/web/20170928193051/http://playmodb.org/cgi-bin/showpart.pl?partnum=30%2001%202020

[Indianna]

After putting in a search term on the Playmodb home page, received this error message:

Can't locate pm_subs_testnoglob.pl in @INC (@INC contains: /home/cplaymod/perl5/lib/perl5 /home/cplaymod/perl5/lib/perl5/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /home/cplaymod/perl/usr/local/lib64/perl5 /home/cplaymod/perl/usr/local/share/perl5 /home/cplaymod/perl/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl /home/cplaymod/perl/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl /home/cplaymod/perl/usr/lib64/perl5 /home/cplaymod/perl/usr/share/perl5 /usr/local/lib64/perl5 /usr/local/share/perl5 /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib64/perl5 /usr/share/perl5) at /home/cplaymod/public_html/cgi-bin/showinv.pl line 11.
For help, please send mail to the webmaster (webmaster@playmodb.org), giving this error message and the time and date of the error.

As suggested in the message, I sent a message to the webmaster but I have little hope of a reply.  After several unanswered emails sent over the last few years to Heather via admin@playmodb.org, I am rather pessimistic about the future of Playmodb.    and

[Janilew]

I sent her account a message here, but no idea if she'll respond. I use that site CONSTANTLY, so I'm terrified if something's going to happen to it--in a negative way.  :'( I thought it was my end and now wish it was. I remember a while back asking about the site's security for the future. I hope there's a way to genuinely archive the ENTIRE site, I tried to look it up myself. Any tech-savvy people, PLEASE let us know!

[tahra]

I sent her account a message here, but no idea if she'll respond. I use that site CONSTANTLY, so I'm terrified if something's going to happen to it--in a negative way.  :'( I thought it was my end and now wish it was. I remember a while back asking about the site's security for the future. I hope there's a way to genuinely archive the ENTIRE site, I tried to look it up myself. Any tech-savvy people, PLEASE let us know!

You can't really archive the site like you could a "static site"...  The pages are generated from the database.... 

[Macruran]

Would be a tragedy but tragically fitting if playmodb and playmobil both shuffled off this mortal coil together....

[Janilew]

You can't really archive the site like you could a "static site"...  The pages are generated from the database.... 

I think you can. Some places at least are able to save an entire site, it’s just really expensive to do so. But you bring a point about generation…

Would be a tragedy but tragically fitting if playmodb and playmobil both shuffled off this mortal coil together....

PLEASE don’t jinx us.  :'(

[playmofire]

Maybe it is the changes to Playmobil's website that have brought this about.

[Janilew]

Maybe it is the changes to Playmobil's website that have brought this about.

That shouldn’t have anything to do with it, because the site loops to itself, doesn’t it? All the info was added manually, wasn’t it?

[Indianna]

Maybe it is the changes to Playmobil's website that have brought this about.

That shouldn’t have anything to do with it, because the site loops to itself, doesn’t it? All the info was added manually, wasn’t it?

As far as I know, most of the data on Playmodb was scraped from the Playmobil website via some electronic means which I don't fully understand and put into the Playmodb database.  A good deal was also done manually or via files sent over by others who had done the manual input. 

I'm totally speculating here, but given that Playmodb hasn't been updated for a long time and that Heather has been unreachable, at least for me, I wonder if Geobra management are involved somehow.