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Hey there, sorry that the site is down! Looking at getting things up and running asap. Special Fish is a small community website so it wasn't built to scale lol. For now, as mentioned by @bertman, you can browse an archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20200420171359/https://special.f... Thanks Wayback Machine!

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> Special Fish is a place for exploring logs and lists. You could think of Special Fish as a public word processor. Usually rtf/txt files just sit on a users computer. Special makes those documents into a social network.

Can you elaborate more on this? What do you mean by making text files on my computer into a social network? Is that just a metaphor or are you actually doing something like that?

It's more of a metaphor for how to think about/approach the site. Logs and lists are stored in a centralized db so nothing new happening behind the scenes. Supporters are able to download their content as txt files, so you could use it as an online version of TextEdit.

Cached version of the site is up again. Working on clearing up auth issues now. Stay tuned...

Update: Okay we are back! Implementing more caching but should be working for now.

Is Random now cached? I always stumble upon the same guy.

Thanks for reporting. Should be fixed now.

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