Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > Ducatisti site down

[AndyW.Inuk]

Dear Ducatisti
Saturday 10th December @ 3:27am
Sorry everybody but I'm having to turn the site off for a while as home life and the 9-5 has once again had to take priority over my Ducati online antics. I'll have Ducatisti up and running as soon as I can and update you here when I know more.

I apologise once again for the inconvenience.

Cheers
Dan

An update is somewhat overdue Dan? I have 'heard' that there is a likelihood that the forums may never be reopened, see here:
http://www.facebook.com/UK.MTS1200.O...71079653003686

I know a number of guys have tried to contact you with the offer of assistance and/or with offers to take over the Ducatisti site from you but nobody has had any reply
I emailed you myself to suggest that a static/closed version of the site be reinstated at least for reference, many people invested a lot of time and effort sharing information and technical advice for the benefit of others and I know there are an awful lot of 'frustrated' Ducatisti out there who would appreciate being able to get access to this information.

I hope all is well with you and that you and your family.

[antonye]

Andy,

I don't think you'll get a response here as I don't believe Dan comes here or is even registered.

It does open up a debate about the worth of privately owned websites compared to a true members club - somewhere like Ducatisti belongs to an owner who can (and has!) closed it down on a whim, whereas the DSC belongs to the members and no one person has control over the site to force its closure.

I can understand that people get upset when they have spent time (and in some cases money!) supporting a website only for it to close, but that is unfortunately the way that things happen sometimes in businesses.

There are plenty of other free alternatives should people want to go to them instead, and the DSC itself has most of the website open to those who register for free, but we take pride that the DSC is much more than just the website, especially after I've just spent the last three nights bagging over 300 copies of "Pronto", our club magazine!!

As they say: you pay your money and take your choice.

[steeevvvooo]

I was only thinking about this today!

Sureley lots of the pages are cached? I have pulled up bits and pieces from the archives using cached pages when they popped up on google searches. Obviously running a search through Ducatisti would be easier, but at lease some of the info is retreivable this way.

- in firefox, click the arrows the the left of the search result in google
- click the blue "cached" hyperlink

Doesn't solve the issues, but might help anyone who doesn't know about cached pages and knows roughly what to search for in google

[AndyW.Inuk]

Good idea Steve but it looks like cached pages are being overwritten by the Ducatisti's down holding page already....just tried 3 searches, only one of the 3 came up with the original forum thread and then if it's a multiple page topic you can't access the other pages ;-(

Thanks Antony....realised my error now, thought post one was a post by Dan (i.e. 'Bionicle' = Dan) but realise now that Bionicle had just copied and pasted Dans comments from the Ducatisti forums holding page at the time.

Andy
www.MTS1200.info
http://facebook.com/UK.MTS1200.Owners

[Iconic944ss]

Likewise I thought the waybackmachine might have been a way to retrieve some stored pages but even that failed and is supposed to be the biggest Internet snapshot ever.

The loss of a great resource.

[AndyW.Inuk]

As of a few days ago there's a new website/forum for all Uk Ducati owners:
http://www.ducatiforum.co.uk/


Andy
www.MTS1200.info
http://facebook.com/UK.MTS1200.Owners

[Col996s]

I still have the site bookmarked and I just clicked on it and it took my to the Ducati Coventry website.
Good move on their part I would have thought.