Wow. I ran this archive back in the 90s, when I was a student at NMSU and it was one of my ancillary duties when I worked part-time for the IT department. I wasn't a fan of OS/2 myself but I appreciated how much of a community there was around it and how excited people were to continue to use it. When I inherited it the website was put together with duct tape and paperclips (and Comic Sans), and the files were pretty inconsistently-organized.
At one point I spent a few months building a new website and tooling to make it easier to manage and then completely reorganized the archive, and while other students replaced the underlying code over the years (eventually replacing my not-very-great C++-based bespoke-CGI system with a much more robust PHP-based one), my design was largely intact, as was the file structure I'd established.
I'm kind of amazed it kept running for this long, but this is a personal end of an era for me. I still hold a lot of nostalgia for it and my time working on it.
At one point I spent a few months building a new website and tooling to make it easier to manage and then completely reorganized the archive, and while other students replaced the underlying code over the years (eventually replacing my not-very-great C++-based bespoke-CGI system with a much more robust PHP-based one), my design was largely intact, as was the file structure I'd established.
I'm kind of amazed it kept running for this long, but this is a personal end of an era for me. I still hold a lot of nostalgia for it and my time working on it.
EDIT: I wrote some more detailed thoughts on my blog. http://beesbuzz.biz/blog/14299-Hobbes-OS-2-Archive-An-end-of...