As far as the technical infrastructure goes, Brokenjam works fine now, all it does is have a little lag some times because dm let go of the proprietary server and now it's co-hosted with a few other small and midsize places, apparently. The only malware warnings we got after the move to the new domain concerned dodgy picture hosts and ads from a place that dm doesn't use anymore. So it should be safe to go there again.

The real bitch is the lack of activity, I think between the malware scare and the lack of porn, most people can't be bothered anymore. But to a certain degree that's OK cause dm doesn't want to do anything but keep a meeting place for old times' sake, he's not interested in expansion. At any rate the basement and the unmentionables are still there.

As for the end of AS, I regret it had to go that way, but it's water under the bridge by now. Maybe someone was out to get us and managed to sneak the malware in, maybe it was a random thing, who knows? Truth be told we had been going downhill slowly since the first pornocaust, so at the end of the day I'm happy that I got the chance to be there while it was great and that's the end of it. I'll keep checking in as long as it exists and if dm ever resolves to try something new, I'm willing to chip in. In the meantime, I like it here and since most of my former AS fellows chose to strike up tent here, it's as comfy an exile as they come.