beaddventure

[MadmanDarkHeretic]

Seems it went private/subscription? New ownership or something?

A shame on that, I guess.

[bladestorm]

Didn't this happen last year as well? Is it a configuration problem again or did they really put it behind a paywall? If the latter then RIP bearchive.

[PyroWildcat]

I seriously doubt they'd pull something like that, especially with zero prior notice. It's probably just a temporary issue; after all, this same problem has come up before.

[Kyril]

Looks to be another config problem from a server change, based on this forum thread.

[OhZone]

I'm glad I didn't start my interactive there! :/ But I bet they come back anyway.

[Cilansis]

Just wanted to post that the Addventure is back up. It's now at http://old.bearchive.com/~addventure/

[sencho]

No go here. Still hitting the infernal paywall.

[vincent_richter]

Originally Posted by sencho

No go here. Still hitting the infernal paywall.

Just so you know, there is a "Free Account" option in the Membership Type drop-down.

[sencho]

Originally Posted by vincent_richter

Just so you know, there is a "Free Account" option in the Membership Type drop-down.

That's still paying for it with my information and thus not going to do it. Especially after an acquisition like this - they bought the BEA knowing this was an open feature so getting cute and hiding it behind accounts means they don't want our continued patronage.

Other groups have done this through the decades and their cyoa features have died from it. Thus I can naturally be disappointed if the new ownership doesn't understand this. Which is unfortunate.

[catfish27]

Originally Posted by sencho

Especially after an acquisition like this - they bought the BEA knowing this was an open feature so getting cute and hiding it behind accounts means they don't want our continued patronage.

Pretty sure the BEA has been owned by the Breast Expansion Story Club/Botcomics people for a loooooong time already (and they've had an unofficial policy of "benign neglect" toward the Addventure for pretty much the entire time).

I was a little surprised to see some people on the forum saying that they hadn't previously realized the Addventure was even part of another site, much less an ostensible paysite. But I guess I can see that, if someone happened upon it from a Google search. (Me, I occasionally visited the BEArchive even before the Addventure existed -- gosh, I'm old.)

[SoylentOrange]

Originally Posted by MadmanDarkHeretic

Seems like it's really shrunk in population, but going to the link earlier in the thread does get in without any login check that I've seen? Maybe it was wandering the bea earlier looking at it.

If you mean this link:

Originally Posted by Cilansis

Just wanted to post that the Addventure is back up. It's now at http://old.bearchive.com/~addventure/

Then no, I still get the login check when trying to visit.

[Laprasking]

If you register and keep yourself logged in your browser, the link will take you there without the log in. Not tried posting any new entries yet, but as long as you don't delete the cookies from your browser or log out, the link will take you there every time.

I suspect things will pick up a bit more once someone revives a Samus Aran path....