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Announcement - 9/8/2020

posted Sep 8, 2020, 6:40 PM by Christopher Ferguson   [ updated Sep 8, 2020, 7:16 PM]
Back in late Febuary I was chastised for creating a Keep note I had made several months prior that had documentation that Securly openly advertises on its website. The way I was "caught" is due to me reopening it several months later to put it in the archive, only for a teacher to screenshot it. Less than three weeks later all public schooling in my state shut down due to a certain pandemic, one that has consistently gotten more dire as time goes on. Currently things are obviously significantly different, and it appears I am still on thin ice with the technology office at my school district.

Obviously FergBlocked doesn't have much time to exist in its intended form left. After New Year's Eve 2020 Adobe will end support of Adobe Flash Player (as I've noted consistently over the last two years). Thankfully I'm almost done archiving the flash games on it. Along with that, Google sent an email on August 6th detailing a shutdown timeline for Google Sites, which means after November 1st you won't be able to edit currently existing Sites and after September 1, 2021 Google will shutdown currently existing sites and download them to their Drive.

Thankfully for Adobe Flash a project called BlueMaxima Flashpoint exists with the soul intention of archiving Flash files. I hope in time something like that can be created for Google Sites, though it seems one by Archive Team is plausible. In the meantime I'll backup FergBlocked to Github Pages or Neocites (probably both) I'll make a new announcement if I have a well running backup. After that, I'll be done with this project. For the site itself it has been an excellent last two years and after I think I'll miss still working on it at times, even with the stressors involved.

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