Encyclopedia Dramatica gone...

h00fzilla · 15 Apr 2011 at 10:21

I did a search and couldn't see anything posted about this.

I just tried loading Encyclopedia Dramatica (http://encyclopediadramatica.com/) and it seems that it is no more, and instead you get re-directed to what I presume is its intended 'replacement'. The new site is called ohinternet (http://ohinternet.com/Main_Page - really?).

It looks like ohinternet is intended to be a completely sanitised version of ED.

ED was a mixed bag of stuff (hate/parody/close to the bone material), but most of its content was actually pretty hilarious.

I felt a bit sad about the end of this so just thought I'd share

Angst · 15 Apr 2011 at 10:35

Shame

Teknobry · 15 Apr 2011 at 10:36

Noooooo!!!

It was a source of great entertainment, a pretty big resource of all the stupid & funny geek stuff the internet has to offer.
They always had a banner on the main page asking for donations to keep the site going, am guessing with it's dodgy content it couldn't secure any advertising.

Gutted

V4NT0M · 15 Apr 2011 at 10:38

/care

Strife212 · 15 Apr 2011 at 10:40

That is pretty sad tbh. Guess they went for the money.

It even has a facebook and twitter...

RomanNose · 15 Apr 2011 at 10:41

Could have been hacked?

Fenris · 15 Apr 2011 at 10:44

I'm sure you'll manage.

Some of their articles were amusing but for the most part it was no better than 4chan.

Deep · 15 Apr 2011 at 10:45

My friend showed me 1 page on ED and NEVER again, I was so offended

Strife212 · 15 Apr 2011 at 10:45

Deep said:
My friend showed me 1 page on ED and NEVER again, I was so offended

What was it about?

antijoke · 15 Apr 2011 at 10:47

Never heard of it, but wish I would have.

[FnG]magnolia · 15 Apr 2011 at 10:50

Good times. ED was on a par with /b/ for worthiness.

Deep · 15 Apr 2011 at 10:50

Strife212 said:
What was it about?

Imagine all the bad images on the internet on one loooooooooooooooooooong page.

Cosimo · 15 Apr 2011 at 10:51

The world won't end.

andy_mk3 · 15 Apr 2011 at 10:51

No loss.

trigger-happy · 15 Apr 2011 at 10:57

lol that **** was riddled with offensive material. So my guess people go fed up and reported it to be taken down? Racism and stuff like that.

Hastarius · 15 Apr 2011 at 11:11

I loved reading ED, it was just a bit of fun and not to be taken seriously.
I hope someone will revive something similar as that ohinternet site is just rubbish in comparison.

tres · 15 Apr 2011 at 11:25

There's a cached version of it's own description on Google.

Won't link to it as it's not really child friendly

Vonhelmet · 15 Apr 2011 at 11:29

ED was pretty good fun.

Lydzor · 15 Apr 2011 at 15:14

There's always http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com I guess.

uknowist · 15 Apr 2011 at 15:26

I tried it yesterday randomly, and it was showing a cartoon picture of a cat hanging on to the webpage with the words "Hang in there, be back soon, in the mean time check out our new blog" which is the site it now redirects to, so maybe it will be back at some point