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VOICE ARCHIVE

Gideon Zhi

@gideonzhi
12 posts
2024-08-04
Nightcrawler, the admin, was burnt out, and I sympathize. I'm burnt out too! But he existed as a single point of failure for the site and exerted iron-fisted control over community-created content, and categorically refused basically all offers of help over the last decade.
2024-08-04 View on X
Polygon

ROMHacking.net, a community of people sharing hacks and fixes for old games, winds down, closes all ROM hack submissions, and moves its data to Internet Archive

no archive, no handoff, nothing. 20 years of community contributions just *gone*. Gideon Zhi / @gideonzhi : By now you've probably seen that https://romhacking.net/ is effectively ...

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Remember all those times the site went down, and stayed down for days at a time? It's because nobody had NC's contact information, only he could bring the site back up, and whenever anyone pointed out that the situation was less than ideal, they were rebuffed.
2024-08-04 View on X
Polygon

ROMHacking.net, a community of people sharing hacks and fixes for old games, winds down, closes all ROM hack submissions, and moves its data to Internet Archive

no archive, no handoff, nothing. 20 years of community contributions just *gone*. Gideon Zhi / @gideonzhi : By now you've probably seen that https://romhacking.net/ is effectively ...

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I'm even angrier at comparisons being drawn between disgruntled staff and the scum-suckers that drove Near to end his life. What happened to Near is an absolute tragedy and I sincerely hope there's a special place in Hell for the human garbage that tormented him.
2024-08-04 View on X
Polygon

ROMHacking.net, a community of people sharing hacks and fixes for old games, winds down, closes all ROM hack submissions, and moves its data to Internet Archive

no archive, no handoff, nothing. 20 years of community contributions just *gone*. Gideon Zhi / @gideonzhi : By now you've probably seen that https://romhacking.net/ is effectively ...

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Staff grew increasingly frustrated. Days would pass without response from NC. He refused to join the Discord to talk about solutions in real-time. Did we vent in private? Sure. Did we dox or threaten? Fucking hell, no! And frankly I'm LIVID at even the suggestion that we did.
2024-08-04 View on X
Polygon

ROMHacking.net, a community of people sharing hacks and fixes for old games, winds down, closes all ROM hack submissions, and moves its data to Internet Archive

no archive, no handoff, nothing. 20 years of community contributions just *gone*. Gideon Zhi / @gideonzhi : By now you've probably seen that https://romhacking.net/ is effectively ...

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In Dec '23, NC posted about an imminent shutdown. Staff offered to help. It was initially refused. The site was originally going to just be turned off — no archive, no handoff, nothing. 20 years of community contributions just *gone*.
2024-08-04 View on X
Polygon

ROMHacking.net, a community of people sharing hacks and fixes for old games, winds down, closes all ROM hack submissions, and moves its data to Internet Archive

no archive, no handoff, nothing. 20 years of community contributions just *gone*. Gideon Zhi / @gideonzhi : By now you've probably seen that https://romhacking.net/ is effectively ...

View original
By now you've probably seen that https://romhacking.net/ is effectively dead. In the end, it's probably for the best; the site was built in the mid aughts and its backend hadn't been re-engineered... ever. Consequently it was costing its administrator hundreds of dollars/month.
2024-08-04 View on X
Polygon

ROMHacking.net, a community of people sharing hacks and fixes for old games, winds down, closes all ROM hack submissions, and moves its data to Internet Archive

no archive, no handoff, nothing. 20 years of community contributions just *gone*. Gideon Zhi / @gideonzhi : By now you've probably seen that https://romhacking.net/ is effectively ...

View original
2024-08-03
I'm even angrier at comparisons being drawn between disgruntled staff and the scum-suckers that drove Near to end his life. What happened to Near is an absolute tragedy and I sincerely hope there's a special place in Hell for the human garbage that tormented him.
2024-08-03 View on X
Polygon

ROMHacking.net, a community of people sharing hacks and fixes for old games, winds down, closes all ROM hack submissions, and moves its data to Internet Archive

no archive, no handoff, nothing. 20 years of community contributions just *gone*. Gideon Zhi / @gideonzhi : By now you've probably seen that https://romhacking.net/ is effectively ...

View original
Staff grew increasingly frustrated. Days would pass without response from NC. He refused to join the Discord to talk about solutions in real-time. Did we vent in private? Sure. Did we dox or threaten? Fucking hell, no! And frankly I'm LIVID at even the suggestion that we did.
2024-08-03 View on X
Polygon

ROMHacking.net, a community of people sharing hacks and fixes for old games, winds down, closes all ROM hack submissions, and moves its data to Internet Archive

no archive, no handoff, nothing. 20 years of community contributions just *gone*. Gideon Zhi / @gideonzhi : By now you've probably seen that https://romhacking.net/ is effectively ...

View original
Nightcrawler, the admin, was burnt out, and I sympathize. I'm burnt out too! But he existed as a single point of failure for the site and exerted iron-fisted control over community-created content, and categorically refused basically all offers of help over the last decade.
2024-08-03 View on X
Polygon

ROMHacking.net, a community of people sharing hacks and fixes for old games, winds down, closes all ROM hack submissions, and moves its data to Internet Archive

no archive, no handoff, nothing. 20 years of community contributions just *gone*. Gideon Zhi / @gideonzhi : By now you've probably seen that https://romhacking.net/ is effectively ...

View original
In Dec '23, NC posted about an imminent shutdown. Staff offered to help. It was initially refused. The site was originally going to just be turned off — no archive, no handoff, nothing. 20 years of community contributions just *gone*.
2024-08-03 View on X
Polygon

ROMHacking.net, a community of people sharing hacks and fixes for old games, winds down, closes all ROM hack submissions, and moves its data to Internet Archive

no archive, no handoff, nothing. 20 years of community contributions just *gone*. Gideon Zhi / @gideonzhi : By now you've probably seen that https://romhacking.net/ is effectively ...

View original
By now you've probably seen that https://romhacking.net/ is effectively dead. In the end, it's probably for the best; the site was built in the mid aughts and its backend hadn't been re-engineered... ever. Consequently it was costing its administrator hundreds of dollars/month.
2024-08-03 View on X
Polygon

ROMHacking.net, a community of people sharing hacks and fixes for old games, winds down, closes all ROM hack submissions, and moves its data to Internet Archive

no archive, no handoff, nothing. 20 years of community contributions just *gone*. Gideon Zhi / @gideonzhi : By now you've probably seen that https://romhacking.net/ is effectively ...

View original
Remember all those times the site went down, and stayed down for days at a time? It's because nobody had NC's contact information, only he could bring the site back up, and whenever anyone pointed out that the situation was less than ideal, they were rebuffed.
2024-08-03 View on X
Polygon

ROMHacking.net, a community of people sharing hacks and fixes for old games, winds down, closes all ROM hack submissions, and moves its data to Internet Archive

no archive, no handoff, nothing. 20 years of community contributions just *gone*. Gideon Zhi / @gideonzhi : By now you've probably seen that https://romhacking.net/ is effectively ...

View original