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Dark Spot II - El Coyote

Otto Von Herunterhängen

Otto Von Herunterhängen

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We've had a large number of new users apply today, and one of them mentioned Dark Spot II, the news over there is that El Coyote has passed away. This is sad news indeed, The Dark Spot is a long term fetish community and it's existence is in question at this point, we lost Dead Skirts the same way.

Drac does have back end access to the site here, as well as access to my underlying hosting account, so there is a second person who can run this site. If membership doesn't want an emergency fire drill at some point though (everybody including me is mortal), somewhere along the line we need to be talking transition plans including how it all gets paid for.

In any case, anybody coming over from DSII, I will check their membership roster for Age Verification when you apply.
 
Very sorry to hear of his sudden passing, Otto., I believe he was not that old. We chatted a couple of times, on Geno's old DS site, and he was also a member of DD as well as (I think) FG as well as Blue's FF place.
 
RIP El Coyote.

This is an issue with password-protected sites. Archive.org doesn't crawl those. I wonder if it would be possible to archive the current contents of TDS2, in case nobody has access to the data?

But I do hope someone has the keys after all, somehow somewhere. While I didn't go to TDS2 much, it's a great repository of both content and people. Now content will get lost and people will scatter all over again. Even archiving the data won't keep the community together if the site isn't there.

Honestly, for a while now I've been advocating that this kind of content should move to the dark web. We'll be pushed off from the clear web eventually anyway, so might as well.

Btw Otto, I never knew you're trish 😄
 
Ahh, sucks to hear. I've heard about Dark Spot a lot over my time in various message boards. I think I made an account there in the last year, but I never really visited. RIP to El Coyote
 
I dropped by TDS2 last night, just to see what system-related shenanigans El C's been dealing with of late, and saw the thread there about his passing. Surreal news... RIP...

DeanMcStabs said:
I think I made an account there in the last year, but I never really visited.
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Speaking strictly on a technical level, you didn't miss much. The site was riddled with bugs since day one, and got worse over time. El spent a good chunk of his time trying to squash them, but never fully succeeded. I respected his tenacity, but gave up on the site as a contributing artist three years ago.
 
Nevertheless, it would perhaps be prudent if someone coudl save the site, somehow, before it disappeared off the air. When Geno passed, his site Dead Skirts disappeared within a couple of weeks because he was unable to send the monthly payment to the provider. Myself and one other person tried to do so, but as we could not quote the passwords they refused to accept our money.
 
I do know the Admin of Deadly Desires (Fetnoir) also is an Admin of TDSII and had been helping El with the site. Hopefully she can assist in keeping it going.

I wasn't personally close with El, but he let me advertise my various sites without question, and was always cool with me.

Wow....
 
Sad to hear of his passing. On the few times that I talked to him via the site, he seemed like a good guy. Don't know a whole lot about him but I do know he was an Air Force veteran. Being a veteran myself, I remembered that about him.
 
I didn't know about this site until you posted about it on Dark Spot 2, so thank you for doing so!

As you know, I also run Deadly Desires, and people are more than welcome to join that community as well if they'd like. They will simply need to ask for a registration code.

Please let me know if you need me to do anything to verify my age!
 
There needs to be found a way to save the Dark Spot II site, or at least all the material on it, before the pre-payment period made by El Coyote runs out. We don't want what happened to Geno's old Dead Skirts site
 
xj900uk said:
There needs to be found a way to save the Dark Spot II site, or at least all the material on it, before the pre-payment period made by El Coyote runs out. We don't want what happened to Geno's old Dead Skirts site
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Not our call. Even if I scraped the site, I don't have anybody's permission to repost it. If El Coyote had wanted the site to survive him, he would have taken steps to make that happen.

This post (over on TDS2) is when it happened: https://thedarkspottwo.com/forum/th...gs/385203-sad-and-bad-news-for-tds-and-tds-ii

If he had wanted to make plans for the site transitioning to a new owner, he would have done it back in May.

The artwork belongs to everybody that posted it, The site belonged to El Coyote. And while it is sad we are losing it, I have to respect his wishes. I didn't try to get the content from Visions of Darkness for the same reason, we started new here.

Me taking all the posts from TDS2 and putting them on a new site without the artists permission is what's called "piracy"

The only reason Uncle Bucks Blog is still up is I was already hosting it, nothing got moved, I didn't break any copyrights doing it.
 
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