The site has been largely inactive since roughly 2017. It suffered a major server failure in mid-2017 and dropped offline entirely in July 2022. While it reappeared in 2023, it did so with no new content The "New Authors" Section:
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ASSTR was most active during the late 1990s and early 2000s. It provided authors with their own FTP directories The site has been largely inactive since roughly 2017