So with the impending demise of the Alliance website (mutter mutter mutter) comes the question of what to do with the materials therein.
I’ve already done a “Save As” for all my individual character entries cross-SG. So the most important material (kindasorta) is safe. (Haven’t done that for Margie’s stuff, but that’s thinner on the ground). Question is, what to do with it.
I could post it on the new AoC Lite forum I’ve put together. Problem is … well, I’m not sure that’s ever going to be much of a community, more like a place to hang and post stuff that needs posting in a place that’s not, well, here. To be perfectly honest, while I look forward to continued CoXing with other members of the remaining AoC groups, I don’t see any of the current folks going into a big membership drive mode that would require a forum to support it.
I’m inclined to think, in fact, that we are in the end game, so to speak, of our (individual) CoX gameplay cycles — the remaining Alliance people will play a bit here and there, slowly decreasing, and gradtually wander away, gently, into that good night.
Okay, that was more depressing than I meant it to be.
At any rate, I’m not sure how much effort I want to put into recreating a Little Slice o’ the Alliance if it’s mostly a half-dozen or so people and their casual passtime. Feel free to disabuse me of my interpretation of the sitch.
The alternative, moving to a more personal style, is to post that character material here, on the Blog of Heroes. Put a pointer to it, perhaps, from the forums (in case someone goes looking), but take the individual posts and either do them up in a single block, or else, plug them in, dated appropriately, and have their own categories (“Log / Psi-clone”) here. The material stays at hand, in a probably-more-persistent format.
That’s the direction I’m leaning, at least for the character stuff (which I care most about). Thoughts?
No clue.
I will have to take a look tonight as to how easy it is to get stuff off of the site.
If it is just copy paste then I’ll make a couple of file and do that. I would have liked to have the coding that comes with it, but being that things are locked I doubt that you can click edit and do it that way.
So, I will pull off what I have written and maybe repost it on mine just to have.
But that is something to ponder tonight.
For me, esp. since most of my stuff was one page long, it was pretty easy — open up the log post, in FF “File / Save Page As ” and point to a directory on the hard drive, choosing “Web Page Complete” as the format (pulls down all the images, etc.).
That saves the material. Question is, what to do with it.
Kate set up another Blogger site for her Noelle stuff.
It is a thought.
Especailly considering that I have a Blogger and an Live Journal accounts for posting comments on those sites.
Well, essentially, I’d be doing it here at my “alternate” (CoX) blog, so same idea.
Leaning that way. Esp. since my blogging client makes copying over the formatting from the page a lot easier. I think.