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I use their dialog components page a lot, but recently I found it's giving an error message. If this website is down for good, is there another one that showed each of the dialog options and what it would look like in a similar fashion? I think the site's been doing this about a month or so, but dont quote me on that.

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Origin Unreachable
Sorry, we are unable to reach the origin server at the moment. Please try again later.

Error ID: b32714eb-2987-4de0-983c-7984d34b9a58

Timestamp: 2025-01-24 10:13:49

This is the link I'm referring to specifically, but the whole site seems down

https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/mirc/dialog_components

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Hello, wikichip is a website started by Wiz, a mIRC scripter who simply disappeared from the mIRC scene overnight. Wikichip started declining overall a long time ago, now it's just down and probably not going to be up any time soon.
Good news is that Kindone wanted to work on a standalone .chm help file which would just be a copy of wikichip with extra informations, which I took part in, so we wrote a wikichip scraper (in mIRC script obviously) and we have been working on the help file (mostly Kindone) since then.

https://github.com/RealKindOne/mhelp

The help file is still a work in progress which is why it wasn't advertised much.

I'll be honest about this project, I have worked on at least 4 differents mIRC scripting documentation projects in the past 15 years, each time with a much greater experience, appreciation and knowledge of mIRC scripting and how things work internally. I have worked with various people, a lot of people are willing to help with such project but wikichip was a true eyes-opener: not everyone has the same knowledge and are objective enough to recognize so.
Wikichip being a true open source project, it was originally documented by Wiz (someone with a very good and deep understanding of mIRC and its internals), and then I basically finished it (with other notable scripters also editing some specific part of it like Kindone or maroon). After it was completed, and only after, I was seeing people editing what I had written and replacing it with at best a worse wordings, at worse a complete different meaning with just plain incorrect statements. No more. So I asked Kindone not to make it true open source at the moment, with people able to make pull request. Wikichip was that great because it was written by people who love mIRC scripting, know it very well, and who carefully are choosing their wording to best describe behaviors and I would like this project to stay that way.


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I've attempted to contact Wiz's @wikichip and personal Twitter account on January 12th, but I have not gotten a response.

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Thanks for the heads up on this. I'll look into the other resource you mentioned.


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Speaking of which, wikichip should probably be removed from https://www.mirc.com/help.html


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