Talk:Diary-X
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November 2005
March 2006
I don't have anywhere else to vent about it right now, but damn Diary-X! This is sortof painful.. -Tim Rhymeless (Er...let's shimmy) 04:14, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
Developer?
From what I understand, Diary-X was a one-man project, so why no mention of the developer's name anywhere? -- hibou 11:47, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
November 2006
Why is there no mention of the controversy over the closure of Diary-X and the loss of so many personal histories?
Why is there no mention that the failure of Diary-X was due to the lack of backups being made? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.152.166.226 (talk • contribs) 13:34, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
: {{done}} Those things are now mentioned. Equinox (talk) 16:38, 21 April 2016 (UTC)
Unsourced for six years
This article was written in 2005. It's been tagged as lacking any sources since 2009. It's survived two AfD, so I won't nominate it again. But anything past the intro that isn't sourced should be deleted, based on the principal that all material on Wikipedia should be verifiable. Will Beback talk 03:20, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
:I searched the Proquest newspaper archive. Two articles have very short mentions of the subject, albeit with some usable facts. The third source was written by a high school junior but published in a small newspaper, Waco Tribune-Herald, and recounts the sudden end of the service. It also shows that the owner/operator, Stephen Deken, had failed to create any backups. I see that the main author of this version of the article was written by user:Stephen Deken. I'm going to re-write the article from scratch based on the minimal material found in three independent secondary sources I've found. Will Beback talk 03:37, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
:Done. If anyone can find additional sources then the article can grow more. Will Beback talk 04:44, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
Screenshot?
I wonder if any screenshots of this old site still survive; if so, might be nice to have here. (Also, though it isn't useful for a WP article, whether the creator still has the source code. I imagine it's only the database of users' diaries that was permanently lost.) Equinox ◑ 14:25, 26 November 2019 (UTC)