What's going on with Union?

[Toby]

It is now more than 7 years since the last software update.

Fortunately, those 2014 versions are pretty solid and work as well as they ever did,

so, in and of itself that's not really an issue.  And it means not having to deal

with frequent (or even infrequent) updates that might disrupt things.

But is anything going on at all?

I wanted to use the old tryuinon chat room for something, and it seems dead.

http://unionplatform.com/samples/orbiter/UnionChat/chat.html

I get:

> Connecting to Union...
> Orbiter connection closed.
> Orbiter connection closed.
> Orbiter connection closed. ...

as it keeps trying to connect.

In the Console log:

Firefox can’t establish a connection to the server at ws://tryunion.com/.

This is never a good sign:

> ping tryunion.com

> Pinging tryunion.com [54.226.131.240] with 32 bytes of data:
> Request timed out.
> Request timed out.
> Request timed out.
> Request timed out.
> Ping statistics for 54.226.131.240:
>    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),

traceroute also fails to reach the server.

Is tryunion just temporarily down, or is just gone forever?

That's not going to help build any sort of body of Users,

as it's a big draw for new people who can quickly try something out.