My apologies if some of these links no longer work, but I'm prone to shuffle things around in the site and won't always update this log to reflect the changes.
December 27, 2009
The website should be entirely restored already, thanks to some holiday time off and feeling under the weather. If anything is still giving a file not found error, please do let me know. Thanks. I also did some minor updates while fixing the site.
Fans have added new submissions to both the fan fic archive and the ThunderArt archive since last update.
The ThunderLinks section got an update with new links, purging or updating of old and broken links, and a new featured site of the month was added. If your link was removed, but you have simply moved your page, please let me know. I tried to find new links when possible but for some of you, I came up dry.
I posted the Fandom Awards this site had won. Thanks to all that voted!
There is a new wallpaper on the site - this one taken from the background image on the KidsWB game.
The Episode Fan Review Guide is not only restored, but every episode has had the comment feature put back, along with the old comments being fully archived. I have more cross-referencing to do, but at least that part is done and everyone can start contributing their two cents again.
That is it for now, but I do hope to do a more meaty update sooner rather than later - including some fic!
November 30, 2009
There's something weird going on with the server and this site's drag on the CPU. Basically my hosting issued me an ultimatum to either upgrade to dedicated hosting I can't afford, 'optimize' the site, or leave their services. I think there's something strange afoot - maybe not unlike what was going on with my Voltron site earlier this year. So what I'm doing is dismantling the site and rebuilding it page by page, checking for any bots or scripts that shouldn't be there, and streamlining things.
I will try to keep the forum up through most if not all the process. Keep updated there. The site will come back bit by bit, whenever I can find time to work on it. Wish me luck!
September 5, 2009
After a spring and summer of being busy IRL and having a hacking catastrophe at my Voltron site (which I have still not fully restored the site as of this date), here's something of an update:
First of all, if you can't tell by the rotating ad, the marquee announcement above or the notes on the message board, Hard Hero is releasing a series of official collectible statues for the franchise, starting with Lion-O. They are to follow that with Cheetara and likely more if the interest is there. If that's your thing, I urge you to check it out.
Related somewhat to the Voltron site hack, I did take down the efiction archive here for a spell. I began to think the hackers got in through a component that is optional on the archive, so I retored it here with that option (tinyMCE) removed. Unfortunately, there is still no version update or workable patch for the software, so I'm quite sure there's still wonkiness anyway. Would love a replacement at this point, but aside from starting from scratch which I want to avoid, it's not looking likely. Will have to see what the efic developers offer in the future, I guess.
Anyway, check out the restored archive here - it seems to be no worse for wear and you can at least read what's there.
The Soundtrack petition was closed, as we reached more than the anticipated goal of 1,000 confirmed signatures. An archive is still availalbe as well as an excel file of the records. Now we just have to see if it has its desired effect. Thanks to all that took the time to sign :)
New material includes some great new members to the ThunderArt gallery and their postings. I also posted the winners at the Fandom Awards page. Congrats to all the winners and nominees! Award graphics for winners should be forthcoming.
Otherwise, I worked more on the Episode Fan Review Guide in as far as adding back the comment feature, and adding the cross-references. It is time consuming, but I got to episode 40. I do hope to work on it again sooner rather than later, along with some of the other projects that are ongoing here. And of course, I hope to work on SITS again. All this contingent on getting my Voltron site fully restored.
Thanks for your patience!
February 16, 2009
Some ficcish updates:
*Finally updated Signal in the Sky. In Spaced Angel's sudden and long absence, Knight Writer has taken up co-writer duties so welcome aboard!
*In a related bit, updated the timeline and cliff notes for SITS.
*Lastly, updated the links page with a great new Lunatacs site, which also made the Featured Site of the Month.
At any rate, still working on the fic archive issue. There's still a lot of bugs in this version (for example, even though SITS updated a chapter it doesn't look like it glancing at my profile and I was unable to add Knight Writer as a co-author), but I'm holding out hope SMF will make a transfer of eficiton database possible. I keep checking in the meantime for a meaningful fix at efiction and have had no luck. I'll keep working at it.
For now, I have to pay attention to my Voltron site for a while. In the meantime I hope you all check out the Fandom Awards - nominations will start soon!