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BlueSoak down

Post by SSCBen » Sat Oct 15, 2005 5:34 pm

Another good site down the drain... this happens all to often. Sadly I don't have anything saved at all, but I'll see what the Internet Archive and Google cache has.

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Post by m15399 » Sat Oct 15, 2005 6:21 pm

Wow, so many sites are going offline. Perhaps the owners gave up soaking after holding it out for a year or two, when there were no CPS blasters on the market. But, as long as SSCentral and iSoaker don't go down, we should still have a pretty large (or small, depending on how you look at it) fan base.

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Post by Crashdummy » Sat Oct 15, 2005 7:44 pm

Bluesmudge is never on the forums any more. I think the soaker websites are all slowly drying up. I would make a website, but I don't know the first thing about making one for my own. :(

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Post by LIGHT ANNIHILATOR » Sat Oct 15, 2005 7:56 pm

m15399 wrote: But, as long as SSCentral and iSoaker don't go down,
That's a senario I do not wish to speak of. I may have link to Bluesoak in my favorites, if so I will post it asap. :cool:

Edit: Just checked my favorites, I do not have it. Hopefully Ben will post a link.
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Post by m15399 » Sat Oct 15, 2005 8:17 pm

I doubt siriously that iSoaker or SSCentral will go down, but I believe we may see several more sites go down, as the owners of sites like Bluesoak no longer post on any forum.

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Post by LIGHT ANNIHILATOR » Sat Oct 15, 2005 10:52 pm

The Aquazone webmaster said he may shut down soon, because he is dissapointed with the new Supersoakers. Fortunatley the newer sites like Soaker Media, SSnation, your site, and the soon to be made webring will make up for the lost ones.
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Post by SSCBen » Sat Oct 15, 2005 11:45 pm

Edit: Just checked my favorites, I do not have it. Hopefully Ben will post a link.
Post a link to a site that is down? The URL is http://www.bluesoak.com/ , but there's nothing there...

Budgie also has said in his news that hosting has been paid for the next year and AquaZone will stay for at least that. From what I've read, he's simply disappointed in the lack of quality in the past few years.

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Post by m15399 » Sun Oct 16, 2005 1:45 am

If I remember correctly, Bluesoak had a few tech articles, and it is dissapointing that Blue Smudge didn't build any homemades or continue into other areas of tech. I believe if you're dissatisfied with the current soakers, you won't be satisfied any time in the near future. Build some homemades!

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Post by DX » Sun Oct 16, 2005 10:10 pm

Bluesmudge built a water balloon launcher. He also wrote some stuff about why you shouldn't go overboard modding.

This shouldn't come as a surprise, seeing how Bluesmudge hasn't been active in maybe half a year. Soakology and WGN were lost in the same way: their owners either let the hosts expire, stopped posting, or everyone forgot their sites. CAM, WGN, and the Waterbridge forum are still up, but badly forgotten.
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