Hooray! Starting Today, the Kamelena and Kamelenta Websites Are Accessible Again to All Visitors from Russia!
For the past 5 days — nearly a whole week — the websites were practically inaccessible within Russia. My email and personal messages on social media were flooded with requests for help from people who couldn't access the site. Based on the site statistics, roughly 2/3 of all visitors were unable to get through. As of today, the problem has been resolved thanks to my husband. Details below.
Update from August 2024: The site Kamelenta.ru has become Kamelist.com!
As I've already mentioned — Roskomnadzor blocked a huge number of resources that have absolutely nothing to do with Telegram. Such unprofessionalism and incompetence are simply staggering in their unfairness.
To make it clearer how this happened, let me give you an analogy:
Imagine you live in an apartment in a multi-unit building in a nice, convenient neighborhood. Now a «criminal» (Telegram) runs into your neighborhood, hides out for a bit, possibly even ducks into some building, then runs off to another neighborhood, then to another city entirely, and even another country. Roskomnadzor shows up, finds out the criminal was here, and welds shut the doors to every apartment in every building — just to be safe — then heads off to continue the chase. No one can visit your now-locked apartment — not a single guest, not a single visitor, no one at all — and nobody has any intention of unlocking it for you. That's roughly how it all went down. The result: Telegram keeps on working, while a huge number of IP addresses (i.e., buildings with apartments) remain blocked. So what's left to do, you might ask? The remaining option is to move to a new apartment in a different neighborhood, taking all your belongings with you — and as you can imagine, moving is anything but quick and easy, and having to leave your beloved, well-appointed home against your will is, to put it mildly, unpleasant. But my husband is clever, and he came up with a faster and simpler solution — he created a teleporter for all guests and visitors directly into the apartment. A huge thank you to him. So thanks to him, access to the sites has been restored for all residents of Russia!
P.S. And one important note: no matter what may be blocked in the country now or in the future, you can almost always get through via a proxy. There are many ways to do this; the easiest is to install Opera (the browser) and enable the VPN checkbox in its settings.