How can we help?

[ZoeESummers]

Now that's the official forums are (temporarily?) back up, how can we help you ensure that all that knowledge isn't lost?

[Lisias]

Hi!

Right now, these are my concerns in order of priority:

1. Pro bono legal advising indications. I'm being dox'ed.
2. A secure host for hosting a working mirror, so people would have where to go if Forum goes down.
   • You can bet your mouse this host will be harassed night and day.
3. Some kind of URL trickery service that would monitor Forum and automatically redirect the request to Forum if they are alive, or the latest version of a page in the mirror if not.
   • So everybody would use this service on their documentation links.
4. Tips for reliable Internet Archive alternatives
   • The buzzheavier service I'm using is working but...
     • buzzheavier was raided, and the new service doesn't fulfills the requirements anymore.
5. A small appliance to use for scraping other than my Steam Deck, so I can use it for playing again... :D
   • Not really a problem, to tell you the truth - as soon as I manage to finish archiving the Profiles, the workload will drop to a minimum and I will probably be able to use one of my raspberry pi 3 to do the job.
6. Some funding to help me pay for the costs of some services I'm using. They are cheap, but the current exchange in my country is starting to be inconvenient.
   • As a matter of fact, the fees I would pay to get the funding and then use it could render the transaction unviable - sometimes is cheaper to just take the heat, so I'm not really concerned about this.

Thanks!

[ZoeESummers]

I can't believe you're being doxxed. WTF is wrong with people?!

[towermom9]

2. A secure host for hosting a working mirror, so people would have where to go if Forum goes down.

   • You can bet your mouse this host will be harassed night and day.

3. Some kind of URL trickery service that would monitor Forum and automatically redirect the request to Forum if they are alive, or the latest version of a page in the mirror if not.

   • So everybody would use this service on their documentation links.

maybe cloudflare DDOS protection and cloudflare hosting?

[ZoeESummers]

Wouldn't it be easier, cheaper to just build a raid storage NAS and host it locally via a public IP rather than paying someone to host it? That way you could clone/scrap the existing site directly onto the network storage, strip out external links etc and then it only costs the electricity to run it?

[towermom9]

Wouldn't it be easier, cheaper to just build a raid storage NAS and host it locally via a public IP rather than paying someone to host it? That way you could clone/scrap the existing site directly onto the network storage, strip out external links etc and then it only costs the electricity to run it?

personality, I think it needs to be community run and funded, cuz this couldn't be a one man job. unless you are Elon musk or some other rich gazillionares

[Lisias]

I can't believe you're being doxxed. WTF is wrong with people?!

To tell you the truth, it's anyone guess. But:

1. KSP is the only remotely possible controversy I'm involved at this point. For years
2. The KSP ecosystem is being taken by people willing to explore it commercially. That's a fact.
3. I had stepped against such exploitation, as well advocated strict adherence to the EULA (and some pertinent legislation). Also for years at this point.
4. And I... well... had clashed with some famous modders in the past due technical issues...
5. "DOXXing" is explicitly forbidden by Forum rules - so, yeah, this had happened before.

I'm being doxxed by doing this Archive? Or it was only the straw that broke some camel' back? Who knows.

But it was remarkable that a private monitoring service I pay alerted me about the leakage essentially at the same time Forum came back online.

Are these events related? Who knows. But it's an interesting coincidence.

--- POST EDIT ---

Sometimes my dislexia really bites my arse. Where I had wrote "as well to strict", I should had write "as well to advocated". Crap, I passed the wrong message on that phrase. Fixed.

[Lisias]

2. A secure host for hosting a working mirror, so people would have where to go if Forum goes down.
   • You can bet your mouse this host will be harassed night and day.

maybe cloudflare DDOS protection and cloudflare hosting?

Probably, but how much this will cost? Money will always be an issue.

[Lisias]

Wouldn't it be easier, cheaper to just build a raid storage NAS and host it locally via a public IP rather than paying someone to host it? That way you could clone/scrap the existing site directly onto the network storage, strip out external links etc and then it only costs the electricity to run it?

It's being considered. But, still, even if I manage personal funding for the service, I don't want to be the only one serving such data. Redundancy is the name of the game - and, assuming I'm being targeted (also, because it's a fact I'm being for other reasons) for this, I don't intent to concentrate all the fire on myself...

[Lisias]

personality, I think it needs to be community run and funded, cuz this couldn't be a one man job. unless you are Elon musk or some other rich gazillionares

Agreed. But this doesn't meant that we could not built a kinda of "Federated" pool of data providers, sharing the load between us. This also would help with the redundancy.

[Lisias]

I'm resurrecting another side project that demanded a Raspberry PI update (that Pi3 of mine is not cutting it anymore) that was already funded, and it ended up being cheap enough to buy the 8GB RAM one instead of the sufficient 2GB I originally intended to buy, and now I will have enough juice to shove this project on it too. No need for a new local dedicated appliance anymore.

I'm going to get my Steam Deck back! :)

[Lisias]

Buzzheavier is definitively out - the new policies doesn't fit the project anymore.

I need suggestions for alternatives to distribute the content besides Archive.

[Lisias]

Well... Apparently, this is it. As from 2025-01-22 01:37:41, forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com and wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com are no more.

The Cloudflare DNS entries were deleted, so they are probably gone - unless it was a mishap, but... What would be the chances?

2025-01-22 01:37:34 <200 https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/contact/>
2025-01-22 01:37:41 (530) <GET https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/contact/> (referer: https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/forum/130-ksp2-mod-releases/)

[Lisias]

Forum is back! :)

2025-01-22 05:26:41,337: [WARNING]: Retrying (Retry(total=0, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None, status=None)) after connection broken by 'NewConnectionError('<urllib3.contrib.socks.SOCKSHTTPSConnection object at 0x7fff89c8b910>: Failed to establish a new connection: 0x04: Host unreachable')'
127.0.0.1 - - [2025-01-22 05:27:00] "CONNECT forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com:443 HTTP/1.1" 200 75 26.523026

[Lisias]

And it's gone again...

> dig forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com.cdn.cloudflare.com

; <<>> DiG 9.20.3 <<>> forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com.cdn.cloudflare.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 35094
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
; COOKIE: c6af3222aa2b26b665b8c3c26791877db236d633270e6392 (good)
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com.cdn.cloudflare.com. IN A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
cloudflare.com.		300	IN	SOA	ns3.cloudflare.com. dns.cloudflare.com. 2363033056 10000 2400 604800 300

;; Query time: 25 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.200.1#53(192.168.200.1) (UDP)
;; WHEN: Wed Jan 22 21:04:16 -03 2025
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 148

Someone is screwing with the DNS entries on CloudFlare.

I had an idea...