Hi Amanda,
Sorry about that. Yes, Referata is currently hacked, and has been hacked repeatedly by someone in the last few days. No, Referata is not going away. I had hoped this problem could have been fixed I already, but I'm hoping to get it fixed soon, and to get rid of whatever security vulnerability they're currently exploiting.
-Yaron
On Sun, May 5, 2019, 1:23 PM Amanda Quad amandaquad@yahoo.com wrote:
Hey everyone,
Does anyone know what happened to the Referata MediaWiki hosting service ( http://referata.com http://referata.com)) - it seems to have died or something, as no site hosted under Referata's domain name, nor the main "meta" website itself is accessible. CC'ing Yaron Koren who I believe is the lead sysadmin of the service. If we have indeed lost another free MediaWiki host, I will definitely say that it is a major setback and has the potential to impact many poeple. Too many free MediaWiki hosts have either died, had a change of management and are now ad-spammed, and/or have become pay-only services.
-- Amanda