Notices by Erin 💽✨ (erincandescent@akko.erincandescent.net), page 17

I think I preferred the time I was in the verge because of the Oftel yahoo group

The “.af” extension is administered as frick by Afghanistan.

OK, whoever wrote that OpenGraph description: I appreciate you, and I also deeply understand your pain at being unable to say fuck.

Oh god, it’s hit the verge

Besides, how often does someone write a news article about a 50 person instance shutting down?

To the people who are like “What did you expect to happen when you picked a .af domain, are you idiots?”

• Yes, we were aware of the possibility of suspension from the start
• Yes, we were aware that political circumstances could change
• But thumbing your nose at conservative autocrats as an even minor form of protest is fun
• In the end pretty much everyone has migrated out successfully (and I’ll continue to help anyone who remains)
• We’ve all gotten a fun story out of this

I’ve been signalling the probable demise of queer.af to my followers for the past year. We knew the end was coming; we just anticipated it to take a little longer

So long; it was fun while it lasted.

That final e-mail before your domain does dark at the regsitry:

Hello fellow admins!

It would help users migrating from queer.af if you would temporarily add the following to /etc/hosts:

The domain was suspended this morning without warning.

For users attempting to migrate, there’s an alias domain for the UI setup at: https://queer-af.alioth.systems

Thank you everyone for flying queer.af; sorry for the abrupt end, but it was out of my control, and you were all (hopefully) aware of this possibility anwyay.