It was unintentional but also maybe it's just time. I haven't worked on it seriously in almost a decade which left it vulnerable. I sort of want to make it a read-only archive and update it to not rely on flash. I haven't made any decisions what to do yet though.​

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rip db



YTMND has suffered a catostrophic failure. Whether or not the site will ever be back is still undecided. I am actively working on data recovery, but who really knows what the future holds. Join the chat to reminisce, or if you have concerns about the direction in which your life is heading, feel free to send an email to support @ YTMND has suffered a catostrophic failure. Whether or not the site will ever be back is still undecided. I am actively working on data recovery, but who really knows what the future holds. Join the chat to reminisce, or if you have concerns about the direction in which your life is heading, feel free to send an email to support @ ytmnd.com (and expect to be ignored). Click to expand... Click to shrink...

YTMND was an early "web 2.0" site that let anybody create a page pairing an image or GIF with a looping sound file and vote on their favorites. By 2006, it had become a mecca for user-generated web humor, a forerunner of Vine and an incubator for weird-ass memes back when "memes" were largely lolcat photos. As YouTube and social media took over the web, it faded into irrelevance. Now, one year after closing new account creation, the site has disappeared from the web entirely.2006 Wired account: A Brief History of YTMND 2016 Gizmodo retrospective: Who Killed YTMND? It's also been archived by Archive Team tweet ), though no word on when/if it will be made publicly accessible.Some of the top sites of all time (YouTube links where possible, Archive.org otherwise): Safety Not Guaranteed (later a major motion picture! Some of my personal favorite pages:Anybody else here a YTMND veteran? Share your favorite sites!I happened upon Max Goldberg's Reddit account last night, and apparently the shutdown was entirely unplanned. As in, he wasn't even aware it was offline until somebody sent him a news article about it several days afterward. He also PM'd me his thinking when asked:FWIW, I suggested it might be better to keep it offline and rely on the various archives to preserve it, because at this point the only real "community" still active there were alt-right edgelords and mentally unstable people unhealthily obsessed with obscure internal drama.Also, he's since updated the site with this message: