Comments on: Where's Plastic?

Where's Plastic?

phatboy — Sat, 01 Dec 2001 18:06:54 -0800

Plastic down? Only a bizarre message from "humble(d)" Anuff and Steadman is up. AFAIK they never had a working revinue model, but they did rack up 22K users in a year.

By: webmutant

webmutant — Sat, 01 Dec 2001 18:50:36 -0800

Reading between the lines, here, at a guess, I'd say the whole "returning it to those glory days [...] before we all went back to using 2400 baud modems" thingy seems to indicate that Plastic's servers were running off @Home cable modems.

They claim they'll be back up soon, though, so I think talking about their failed revenue model might be a little premature.

By: phatboy

phatboy — Sat, 01 Dec 2001 19:07:47 -0800

A revenue model can only fail if they had one. They never had ads or any other visable source of income. The only time I saw a mention of a means of making money, they were talking about creating "customized plastics (slashdots)" for clients.

While plastic gets flack here, it was (is?) a decent site. I'd be sad to see it go. The users were good, they just desparately needed better editors.

By: tamim

tamim — Sat, 01 Dec 2001 19:17:01 -0800

The Plastic outage thread @ Fark.

By: eyeballkid

eyeballkid — Sat, 01 Dec 2001 21:27:15 -0800

Anyone also notice that K5 has been down for most of a week now?

By: owillis

owillis — Sat, 01 Dec 2001 21:28:21 -0800

After reading that thread on Fark, I think it's safe to say we better not f*ck with Wil Wheaton here on Mefi... :)

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Sat, 01 Dec 2001 21:36:19 -0800

Re : K5. Rusty's bored.

Re : fucking with WW. We done did that, it seems. I don't remember it, though, oddly.

By: jkottke

jkottke — Sat, 01 Dec 2001 22:00:58 -0800

A look at the whois info for plastic.com reveals that Carl owns the domain. Curious.

By: feelinglistless

feelinglistless — Sun, 02 Dec 2001 03:44:28 -0800

I hope when they say that some cool stuff will be gone they don't mean the alt.culture archive...

By: rusty

rusty — Sun, 02 Dec 2001 09:28:00 -0800

Re: K5. Rusty's bored that K5 is still down, but not bored of running the site. It's hardware issues, which are slowly being resolved. And it's been almost two weeks now.

It sounds like they're having something like the same problem I am. How cute.

By: bshort

bshort — Sun, 02 Dec 2001 09:53:19 -0800

Freedonia (Carl's site) is also down.

By: Mid

Mid — Sun, 02 Dec 2001 10:31:19 -0800

You can still apply to date Carl, however.

By: honkzilla

honkzilla — Mon, 03 Dec 2001 12:12:30 -0800

info i have heard is that carl sold his condo and, rather than use the money to buy another place to live, bought back automatic media. meaning carl owns not only plastic but also suck. whatshisname bought back feed.

By: bradlands

bradlands — Mon, 03 Dec 2001 13:07:59 -0800

...which leaves him, what, homeless?

By: honkzilla

honkzilla — Mon, 03 Dec 2001 14:17:51 -0800

which leaves him, as ever, carl.

By: bradlands

bradlands — Mon, 03 Dec 2001 14:21:12 -0800

And we wouldn't have him any other way. ;-)

By: cell divide

cell divide — Mon, 03 Dec 2001 14:53:05 -0800

the end.

By: bradlands

bradlands — Mon, 03 Dec 2001 20:40:34 -0800

(James Bond will return in Plastic Is Forever.)