It turns out the board was never down but the ban page was misconfigured so banned members were hit with the 404 in error. This is what I have gathered from reading posts on goatfinger itself.
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Anonymous2017-05-31 0:30
>>26 That makes sense. Especially since every vpn and proxy is banned there.
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Anonymous2017-05-31 1:47
>>27 Seems like it is just some of the USA-based PIA IPs that are blocked. I have found most VPN IPs work fine.
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Anonymous2017-05-31 1:54
>>28 According to him, it's every IP on stopforumspam.
I must in good conscience warn everyone about goatfinger, and the negative influence it may have on a lot of people who are captured by it.
it is a cult. its posters are on psuedo-crack. I used to be a big fan until I realized how harmful its way of thinking is. As a fan of survival shows, I will make an analogy:
On Naked and Afraid XL, there was this one incident where half of the survivalists had to tap out on the same day. It began when they found a fruit tree and ate the fruit. they enjoyed it, it was good, but it took a couple hours for some, a whole twelve or so hours for others to begin feeling the awful excruciating pain that was caused by eating this fruit. Some were lucky, and did not get the poisoning.
Ladies and gentlemen, much of the things you read on here, the things you absorb here, are like this scenario. You get hooked and soak it all in, but it may take a good amount of time, perhaps years, before you notice the negative effects, and will you have the wisdom to know where it started?
goatfinger has a unique affect on people. it has the ability to bewilder and "change someone's entire perspective on life" as was with me and as I often hear. However, this perspective change is not so different from a psychotic experience. Beware.
Apparently it's going to be shut down tomorrow(?). Is there any truth to that claim other than a thread started by someone named "Admin"?
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Anonymous2017-06-23 23:34
>>42 No, that thread was mae by the Admin of dis.tinychan and was about how this website was shutting off the https for the "freesoftwarefoundation.org" domain on the 23rd. Which happened as you can see.