The web site/communty Plastic has been down for weeks now, and its status is unclear. The chat room is still operational and there's a message about some hardware testing going on, but who knows. Do you know?
There are 6 reader comments
• Jul 05 2006 • 2:23PM
Looks like kuro5hin is also down? Can no one compete with mathowie's empire?
• Jul 05 2006 • 2:36PM
nevermind, it's back up.
• Jul 05 2006 • 3:47PM
Plastic was one of those rare gems that allowed itself to be bogged down in egos. waitingforplastic.blogspot.com was the holding pattern for a while, but like Parrow said above treesanthings is the "replacement."
However, it's unfair to say MayorBob or anyone ended Plastic except the one person who could and apparently did, Carl.
• Jul 05 2006 • 5:38PM
MayorBob asked about it's death in Sept 2003:
http://metatalk.metafilter.com/mefi/3556
• Jul 06 2006 • 2:12PM
Carl just keeps slipping away from us. His last [b]log post was back in November. Anybody know what the guy does to put food on the table?
This thread is closed to new comments. Thanks to everyone who responded.
S. Parrow • Jul 05 2006 • 1:58PM
Plastic died long before the plug on the server was pulled. In its day it was a glorious thing, but the regulars who made it (I'm looking at you MayorBob) also destroyed it (still looking). The unofficial replacement is at http://www.treesandthings.com. It's built on Scoop, and hurts my eyes.