The All-New STYLUS.

no doubt! it was only when you referred to him in the third person that i caught on.

nothing to be proud in there, soto.

That's still on the site.

where?

Thanks, Moka.

is it a given that the domain/server for the Stylus archives are going to be kept up for the forseeable future? ever since the end I've been so paranoid that I need to archie my stuff or make sure it's saved offline and just haven't gotten around to it yet.

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ha: I finally started archiving my old reviews over the weekend, and then on Sunday night before I was even halfway done suddenly StylusMagazine.com went down. is that it? if so, I guess that's what I get for procrastinating.

faced

I kind of doubt it, since that domain is still used for other purposes, even though the front end of the site is no longer updated.

"other purposes"? be more specific, or at least less ominous, please.

jaymc has a satellite tracking system running off the back end. he knows where you are.

Other purposes = the staff message board is still active.

Hyperactive.

One might say that.

oh, ok. i got locked out of the board a few months before the site stopped publishing when i decided i'd rather do singles blurbs for free but not album reviews, so maybe you can pose the question for me of what the future of the archive is or if the current outage is just a blip.

As far as I know, it's just a blip. But nobody's told me anything.

And for what it's worth, I haven't archived any of my stuff, either, although if the site does go down I could probably dig through my e-mail to find the pre-edited versions.

I was updating my CV this weekend when this shit happened.

yeah same here re: drafts saved in e-mail, not a huge deal, i was just curious.

Dang, I miss Stylus.

Working again.

RIP :-(

i know it has been gone but now it's really GONE.

fuck. I had just bookmarked on Monday a couple of great articles to read again and I got seriously depressed to see this. Any way to save the old archives? I don't know, traslade all the files over to the internet archive? The wayback machine?

http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

Oh I just noticed that stylus does in fact have an archive page, everything is not lost:

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.stylusmagazine.com

I'm sure it'll be back again.

This fucking blows.

So it's back, but no search function?

I'm really enjoying joining up on th' new singles jukebox; i'm being forced to listen and write critically again!

^ also to write "th'" again

thath my lithp. thankth for bringing ith up.

always wondered if it was a Griffy rip/tip when you did it on th' Hut

heh, I _did_ grow up with Bill Griffith comix as a kid, so it's possible.
Mostly, I think it's a kinda faux 30's hipster thing I assimilated into my online tapping years ago.
I think Zippy says "heh" too, don't he?

Hi five to Jordan S as we both use our hairbrushes to sing Miley Cyrus songs.

From commodore Passantino's blog:

Well, that’s all we’re going to say until (*AIRHORN SAMPLE* EXCLUSIVE EXCLUSIVE EXCLUSIVE *AIRHORN SAMPLE*) the celebratory one-off return “we’re getting the gang back together” decade-end polls drop in a month or so’s time.

Yep, none of us have moved on with our lives in the interim.

Cool.

Alfred said something on a thread recently that gave me the impression this was happening.

It is indeed. I'll be contributing, after a fashion.

It should read "the Stylus celebratory one-off..." but I copied it wrong, or something.

Great news, BTW.

I wish it was more than a one-off reunion, but I'll take it -- happily.

This is dope imo.

Awesome. This is v. exciting news, indeed.

I'm blushing all kinds of red now.

This is great. Can't wait.

HOLY SHIT!! I'm so excited. Love love love Stylus so much.

v. excited

Can't wait to see Kid A still end up winning it.

Can't wait for the P4K No. 1 v. Stylus No. 1 Polls.

Well, now that the secret's out, I might as well post a couple of details: a new one-off URL, unrelated to the main site; and new one-off content, including essays.

Essays! Yes!!

Only on ILX would you ever read the exclamatory "Essays! Yes!!"

Hahahaha. :-D

Huzzah!

ditto to everyone else's comments; can't wait.