<story><title>Transparenttextures.com</title><url>https://www.transparenttextures.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikehearn</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s extremely weird to see this site on HN! I built this site in 2014 -- and haven&amp;#x27;t touched it since. I wasn&amp;#x27;t a developer then, I was a product manager, and this was a &amp;quot;look, hiring managers, I can build things&amp;quot; side project (it worked, I&amp;#x27;ve been a dev since 2016).&lt;p&gt;Despite being about 40% broken I keep the site up because it&amp;#x27;s still reasonably functional and there are a surprising amount of sites that now depend on having hotlinked the patterns directly from this domain. If it ever degrades to the point of being actively dangerous (and the attribution link rot is pretty close), I&amp;#x27;ll shut it down. Until then, it&amp;#x27;s a fun relic from the internet of a decade ago.&lt;p&gt;Just to answer a question upthread (and I 100% agree this should be on the website), the patterns are all CC-BY-3.0, meaning it just requires attribution and any pattern can be used for free.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dspillett</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; If it ever degrades to the point of being actively dangerous (and the attribution link rot is pretty close), I&amp;#x27;ll shut it down.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you do shut it down, and safety is a concern, I would keep the domain going for a while with an “it is all gone…” message, otherwise as soon as it expires it&amp;#x27;ll be replaced by something less safe. Usually this will be a standard “domain for sale” page with a pile of trackers, but as this domain has hit the front page of HN today I expect several bots have just scraped the content so if they get the domain they can shove it back up with ads &amp;amp; trackers.&lt;p&gt;Or if you want it to survive but don&amp;#x27;t have time to clean up the rot, maybe do as someone else suggested and put in on GitHub, so others can fork &amp;amp; fix it, and replace the site at the current domain with a link to that so anyone following a link to the current domain can find the remnants and any forks. And if a particularly well maintained fork does turn up, perhaps link directly to that too.</text></comment>
<story><title>Transparenttextures.com</title><url>https://www.transparenttextures.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikehearn</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s extremely weird to see this site on HN! I built this site in 2014 -- and haven&amp;#x27;t touched it since. I wasn&amp;#x27;t a developer then, I was a product manager, and this was a &amp;quot;look, hiring managers, I can build things&amp;quot; side project (it worked, I&amp;#x27;ve been a dev since 2016).&lt;p&gt;Despite being about 40% broken I keep the site up because it&amp;#x27;s still reasonably functional and there are a surprising amount of sites that now depend on having hotlinked the patterns directly from this domain. If it ever degrades to the point of being actively dangerous (and the attribution link rot is pretty close), I&amp;#x27;ll shut it down. Until then, it&amp;#x27;s a fun relic from the internet of a decade ago.&lt;p&gt;Just to answer a question upthread (and I 100% agree this should be on the website), the patterns are all CC-BY-3.0, meaning it just requires attribution and any pattern can be used for free.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>codetrotter</author><text>&amp;gt; If it ever degrades to the point of being actively dangerous (and the attribution link rot is pretty close), I&amp;#x27;ll shut it down.&lt;p&gt;To avoid the problem of linked domains leading to malware or things like that, you might consider linking to archived snapshots on Wayback Machine of the links instead of the real pages, for those sites that are now no longer hosting what they used to.</text></comment>