Feel free to make a replacement if you are that disatisified with Aminet. It hasn't stopped others before, and probably won't in the future too.
As for the problems the main server has had, I think Christoph described it ok.
For Aminet mirrors that work just fine:
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http://wiki.aminet.net/MirrorsCurrently 9 out of 10 mirrors up, and one more is coming soon.
Ok, the upload is somewhat hurting right now, as I haven't been able to move that to the "degraded" mode, but will try to fix that.
The search function of the degraded mode should work exactly like it did on the classic Aminet.
For news about aminet:
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http://wiki.aminet.net/NewsFor suggestions, (more) complaints and chit-chatting:
mail@aminet.net
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irc://irc.aminet.net/aminet (AmigaworldNET #aminet)
As for personal websites that haven't been updated, I really wonder what that is all about. I run some other websites, both personal and general, and they all seem pretty alive and kicking to me:
http://utilitybase.com http://polarboing.com http://amifund.net http://amigann.com http://aros-exec.org http://my.opera.com/nicolasm also working on a school project here:
http://veggidi.opentheweb.org/I'm sorry if we made your life miserable, but frankly it's hard to know about it if you don't tell it to us. (Yep, I don't have time to stay on top of all the forums on the various portals, although I do follow the dev site forums quite closely.)
On the other hand if you are just exaggerating and using the rant as an excuse to make yet another software repository, that's ok, except it shouldn't be that hard to use regular arguments
If you for some reason happen to be happy with the work we do, don't hesitate in sending a donation to support@aminet.net using PayPal.
Ta-ta...
