Hi All, 

The millenia server for the ifeffit pages, WebAtoms, and XAFS.ORG  is now back to being visible to the world.  Please let me know if there are any problems.    We should definitely try to track down the issue of WebAtoms not handling data with more that 50 sites.   Matthew's CIF file should be helpful for tracking that down.  If anyone figures it out, please let me know! 

The IXAS website is a separate disaster, but one that I am at least partly to blame, as chair of the IXAS.   Basically the ixasportal.net domain was held by Hiroyuki Oyanagi who sadly past away almost a year ago now.  The domain registration was only valid through August, 2019 and the domain went down then.  I have all of (or perhaps "most of") the web data from that domain from the webmaster, but getting the domain itself back seems either impossible or perhaps "very expensive".  

My plan / hope is to bring up a new site using WordPress with the idea that this will be editable by more than a couple people (but with authentication and modern web tools).  I have the start of a site, but it is not quite ready for beta testing.   My intention is to send this to the IXAS Executive Committee (Hi Simon!) very soon (like, mid February) and then announce here and other places.   I would like to move the content from XAFS.ORG there as well -- I think this is possible.    There are more plans, including an on-line spectral database.  

I will also be hoping / planning that more people (like everyone in this thread) might be willing to participate in these efforts at least to some extent (either editing or reviewing or making suggestions for these web pages) once they are actually up and the Executive Committee has had a chance to way in on this.   I'll keep you all posted, but it is completely fair to be poking me about this on a regular basis.

--Matt