Well, the time has finally come where modern technology no longer supported the website. The latest theme was built upon the old site and has been in use for many years. It was rock solid (secure) because it didn’t use any special databases or CMS tools. Everything was created by hand and uploaded manually. It was a zen-filled hobby and one of the only websites I work on that was still done using notepad and photoshop.
Sadly, modern tech/code/PHP no longer supported most of the original structure and I was forced to update as it will soon all be deprecated (no longer supported). It was either update or let everything go and the latter just felt unacceptable. So it’s been moved to a whole new platform. Not everything made it as some things were best left buried and forgotten. Like the channel rules (the IRC channel hasn’t existed in years now). However, I will be open to adding new stuff if anyone shares their thoughts here in the forums or via the contact section.
The forums haven’t changed. Nothing new there. Same platform and it will continue to be for as long as I can justify it. But the main website and everything that went with it is completely redone (outside of the trivia system and a few small things).
Contact forms will be one of the last things to go in, but it will be less than 24 hours from the time of this post, so no biggy. Hope you like the new design and I hope you enjoyed the old one as well. I hope it will live on in your memory as it has weathered many years successfully and catered to many hundreds of thousands or even millions of visitors (depending on how far you want to look back).
There is a chance that future news announcements will be made here instead of the forums. Haven’t quite made up my mind on that one just yet. No one really uses the forums anymore as forum communities have been a dying dead breed for some time now. You might even find that the forums will go away eventually (oh my!). Again, just thoughts at this point as we determine what to do next. If anything, certain things may be removed from the forums and brought to the front of the site and some things will remain in the forums to make it easier for others to post and interact. Thoughts are always welcome 🙂
