Complicated simplification: blognomic.com
Hi, everyone, a long-idle Blognomician here.
A few months ago, I talked with Kevan about possibly migrating Blognomic to its own webspace, and start using a blogging tool we can customize to our liking. I purchased blognomic.com and blognomic.net at the time, and have subsequently done jack-squat with them.
Now it's summer, I'm getting a sleep disorder fixed, and I'm ready to make this happen to whatever extent it needs to.
This thread, then, is to talk about what things need to move, what things need to stay, what cool stuff to add, whether to scrap the whole idea, etc. Here's my preliminary thoughts:
* We could use WordPress or ExpressionEngine as the CMS. I'm already running an EE install on my webspace, and it has some very, very handy features we could use. In particular, fully configurable permissions and custom post statuses (enacting/failing a post would involve clicking a checkbox and typing a sentence). Also, we could do stuff like "Oldest pending proposal" natively instead of with scripting.
* We could almost certainly do just as much coolness with WordPress, and get the benefits of open-sourceness. This is open to discussion; I'm cool with either.
* In any case, we won't have to use BackBlog for comments anymore. It shouldn't be too hard to make all the old comments on old posts accessible, though. And the archives can stay on Blog*Spot, of course, if they prove too hard to migrate properly.
* I wasn't intending to move the GNDT or Wiki over, although we could move either or both if it's found desirable to. That's 100% entirely Kevan's call.
* If comment threading is important, we'll need to make sure we have that.
* Of course we'll have a lot of testing before we migrate the actual game over.
* I can't remember everything I wanted to say here.
So anyway, just pipe up with your thinkin's about this. If most everyone wants to leave well enough alone, then we can scrap the idea, redirect the domains to Blog*Spot, and that's altogether fine by me. :)
EDIT: Another important thing: admins can have shell/FTP accounts, so even if I go inactive, they have total access to everything.
Thanks,
SFT
(P.S. -- Regardless of what we do with the site, anyone who wants one can have a blognomic.com/net e-mail address)
A few months ago, I talked with Kevan about possibly migrating Blognomic to its own webspace, and start using a blogging tool we can customize to our liking. I purchased blognomic.com and blognomic.net at the time, and have subsequently done jack-squat with them.
Now it's summer, I'm getting a sleep disorder fixed, and I'm ready to make this happen to whatever extent it needs to.
This thread, then, is to talk about what things need to move, what things need to stay, what cool stuff to add, whether to scrap the whole idea, etc. Here's my preliminary thoughts:
* We could use WordPress or ExpressionEngine as the CMS. I'm already running an EE install on my webspace, and it has some very, very handy features we could use. In particular, fully configurable permissions and custom post statuses (enacting/failing a post would involve clicking a checkbox and typing a sentence). Also, we could do stuff like "Oldest pending proposal" natively instead of with scripting.
* We could almost certainly do just as much coolness with WordPress, and get the benefits of open-sourceness. This is open to discussion; I'm cool with either.
* In any case, we won't have to use BackBlog for comments anymore. It shouldn't be too hard to make all the old comments on old posts accessible, though. And the archives can stay on Blog*Spot, of course, if they prove too hard to migrate properly.
* I wasn't intending to move the GNDT or Wiki over, although we could move either or both if it's found desirable to. That's 100% entirely Kevan's call.
* If comment threading is important, we'll need to make sure we have that.
* Of course we'll have a lot of testing before we migrate the actual game over.
* I can't remember everything I wanted to say here.
So anyway, just pipe up with your thinkin's about this. If most everyone wants to leave well enough alone, then we can scrap the idea, redirect the domains to Blog*Spot, and that's altogether fine by me. :)
EDIT: Another important thing: admins can have shell/FTP accounts, so even if I go inactive, they have total access to everything.
Thanks,
SFT
(P.S. -- Regardless of what we do with the site, anyone who wants one can have a blognomic.com/net e-mail address)
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