[Ads-l] Future of the Eggcorn Database

[Chris Waigl]

The Eggcorn Database has in recent months and years been rather unstable
(broken security certificates, or even complete outages). The cause of this
sorry state of affairs is a lack of investment of time and efforts by me,
in part due to my procrastination before the rather daunting task of fixing
the underlying issues of outdated, broken software.

The site's status and future has been recently raised in a forum thread
here: https://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=7470 . In it I
provide some more background information as well as ruminate on options.

Since then my thinking has come around forging a path forward in the
following manner: a) back up all existing content and b) convert both the
forum and the ECDB into a static site, preserving all URLs. I would also at
this time move the site to a better hosting provider. However, this would
be the end of new posts to the forum, and also the inability to resume EDCB
entries. It could be revived in the future or the content reused with no
more effort than it would take now.

This is by way of an announcement. Any thoughts are welcome, too.

Chris

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