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James Baicoianu
@bai.dev

Merry Christmas to me. doomscroll.cx domain was suspended due to some failed ICANN verification process. Working on getting it back online.

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James Baicoianu@bai.dev

So if you're going to be doomscrolling today, at least make it a journey through decades of community creativity that helped shaped gaming as we know it. Maybe something you made is in here? doomscroll.cx

doomscroll.cxDoomScroll — Browse, Preview, and Play Thousands of User-Made Doom WADsEndlessly scroll through decades of user-made Doom maps. Preview and play WADs instantly in your browser.
James Baicoianu
@bai.dev

Hooray, my registrar has informed me that it is not them who seized the domain, Christmas Island did it. On Christmas. So now I have to ask them to fix it. Guess they don't celebrate Christmas there 🤷‍♂️

James Baicoianu
@bai.dev

tbh it was the combination of the domain getting cancelled and a few articles focusing (predictably) on the legality, rehashing doom mod scene drama from decades back, and I decided there were some changes I wanted to make before relaunching to clear that up. Then I got busy with other stuff.

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James Baicoianu
@bai.dev

Well...I changed it to be clearer that the default view is shareware-only wads. I added bring-your-own-WAD support for Doom and Doom 2 registered versions, and added Heretic support as well. I also added a flagging system, which people can use to complain about broken or badly-licensed wads.

James Baicoianu
@bai.dev

I also added this little guy who takes psychic damage as you scroll, but I think I want to redo the hands without AI before I launch, because....yeah. And I guess I can just host it on xrdoom.com instead of trying to find another custom domain. But yeah, that's where it is now.