AP Ask Planet Kubb

Ask Planet Kubb was a question-and-answer site for the Kubb community at ask.planetkubb.com. It welcomed visitors to a “community driven site to learn more about the great game of Kubb,” run alongside the Planet Kubb planet feed. It was online by June 2012, when Garrick van Buren and I linked it in Open Loop #0. A July 2012 capture shows 75 questions, 182 answers and 64 users, with polls on who would win each group at the 2012 USA Kubb Nationals. Garrick and I built it together (“then we built Ask Planet Kubb”), and on Open Loop #1 I called it “the number one place for Q&A in the community,” adding, “it’s a low bar.” Garrick was one of its most active answerers.

I ran the site on Question2Answer “for a number of years,” liking it because it was simple to run on PHP and MySQL. Spam registrations kept getting through ReCaptcha and a text-question captcha, so in November 2014 I wrote q2a-number-captcha, which asks for one digit of a nine-digit number spelled out in words (Question2Answer Number Captcha).

The Wayback Machine shows the site still serving questions in July 2018, with the last answers dated December 2017. By November 2018 the address showed only a default web server page.