Glad Green Felt is back
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For much of today the site was blank for me: a white page. Top page or any game, the same. The withdrawal symptoms were starting to get serious.
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I find the website below 👇 is useful to check whether a site is offline or whether it’s just my access problem. It let me know that greenfelt.net was down for everyone.
https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/
Hey guys...ditto on what @zudensternen wrote.
I forgot just how much I loved playing Greenfelt until you suddenly were no longer there. Was forced into playing 2nd rate sites for my fix...not funny.
Ditto @zudensternen withdrawal symptoms. Yikes. Do I want to take the time to re-figure out some other dissatisfying site to play on? Nah.
I just hit on a great workaround for those times when greenfelt.net is unavailable. Frankly I feel a little sheepish that it hasn't occurred to me before now.
It's the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.
Go here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20250000000000*/https://greenfelt.net/
I just played a few games of Freecell on the February 5, 2025 incarnation of the site. It looks identical to what we play today. Getting the first game to load is a bit slow, but after that the code runs locally in your browser so it's as snappy as always.
The one drawback is that the Archive doesn't (and probably can't) store the score databases. So at the end of a game you don't get the satisfaction of seeing who else was playing and how they all did. But if you play just for the fun and the mental exercise, the Wayback Machine could be a lifeline for easing those withdrawal symptoms.
Thanks for the tip @zudensternen...not sure if I have your kind of patience and tech knowhow. When things go astray in Greenfelt I use the technique for dummies...Google...type in Klondike patience. I go through their list until I find something that is at the least playable. Usual problem with these sites is they are designed to promote advertising for various companies to market their products... time consuming and very distracting plus the games are not that great. Not at all like Greenfelt strategy which is designed for the player...frankly, I don't know how or why they do it...I'm just glad they do what they do.
The Greenfelt guys embody the ethos of the early web, before it became... what it is now. Personally I can't abide all the ads and attention-grabbing craziness that many sites embrace. I run a DNS-based ad blocker called Pi-Hole on my home network (on a Raspberry Pi device the size of a pack of playing cards). 95% of ads simply do not appear. In the last 24 hours it has blocked over 33% of all DNS queries. It has 231,000 addresses on its blocklist. https://pi-hole.net
@zudensternen You might further qualify that how you use Pi-hole would not work for the average Microsoft or Chromebook player. More for somebody with your in-depth computing skills. I do like your Way back suggestion. Thank you.
Good point @sierrarose . I think anyone could use Pi-Hole, but it takes a bit of technical know-how and persistence to get one installed and working.
rose, r u suggesting that we microsofties should just "shut our pi-holes"?
