Yes, we've been quieter than normal over the past week but that was not our intention. The Friday before last, our Movable Type install started causing serious problems, yet again, forcing us to basically shut down our backend. We then had the following options:
1) Shell out a few hundred dollars, resentfully upgrade to Movable Type 3.x, and still feel restricted with what we can do as long
or
2) Bite the bullet and migrate everything to a different content management system.
I decided on the later, and immediately commenced work on moving over to Drupal. I'll save you the long story, but after much hair-pulling and swearing, just about everything has been moved over. Sadly, it did take longer than expected (I hoped to have things up and running on Friday, and instead spent all weekend working on the darn thing), but I think it has been worth it.
We're still finding some url aliasing problems and tweaking things here and there but, for the most part, the site should be humming along pretty well, or at least well-enough for the time being. If not, I'd be more than happy to hear any complaints you have or bugs you've found - just email me!
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#1 Max Walrus Mar 6, 2006 05:51pm
Haven't even noticed. I guess the site was never down, or not for any extended period of time?
#2 Glenn Turner Mar 6, 2006 07:05pm
The site itself wasn't down, but we did pull access to articles and journal entries for a few hours that Friday after we found the problem. The only real difference has been the fact that we haven't been able to post anything to the site, so last week's update wasn't able to be published. :(
#3 R. LeFeuvre Mar 6, 2006 07:27pm
My poor neglected Journal.
#4 hobbie Mar 7, 2006 03:57am
I need more AC:WW antics. STAT!
#5 hobbie Mar 14, 2006 01:47am
Should I get this when I try to get just www.thenewgamer.com ?
#6 Glenn Turner Mar 14, 2006 02:22am
I don't exactly know what you mean. What are you seeing?
If you're seeing it redirect to http://www.thenewgamer.com/content and then have the page display what looks like our front-page content then yes, that's exactly what you should see. All article requests are now directed towards that subfolder, as that's how our new backend works.
If you're not seeing that, but instead are seeing something completely different, please let me know ASAP.
#7 hobbie Mar 14, 2006 02:30am
I used to get a pretty page with pictures and such, but now I see pure text.
http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/9233/fugly0qv.jpg
#8 Glenn Turner Mar 14, 2006 02:38am
Please check your PMs.
#9 Dublyner Mar 14, 2006 10:59am
I momentarily also got to see your site with its pants down (CSS didn't load) on the main page of the forums. A refresh fixed it. Availability issues?
#10 Glenn Turner Mar 14, 2006 11:18am
Probably. The last day or two we've had some bots or something hammering hard on the forums, just chewing through our available bandwidth, which I'm not too happy about it. I thought I blocked the requests, but perhaps there's something else going on. I'll look into it, thanks!
#11 eibboh Apr 8, 2006 01:11am
So i just figured out why the site has so many guests at the weirdest time of night.
Gamesetwatch.com will link to your articles. I guess I'm the last to figure this out, but cool.
#12 Glenn Turner Apr 8, 2006 02:10am
They aren't the only ones - we've been linked on quite a few sites this year, which has resulted in over 200,000 visitors over the past three months.
But we do love Gamesetwatch, and not just because they seem to like our articles. :D