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Happy US consumer holidays!
Well, so what have I been up to? I tolds ya I wanted to get some of the websites working again.So I did.
http://backlot.rq3.com/
http://vault.rq3.com/
There's a slight issue with permissions (I'm guessing) for displaying the manuals for each respective site, but hopefully that will be resolved in short order. I basically recreated the sites from the broken PHP to static HTML 4 (sorry TTI, no XML!)
Took a while and some content was lost to a mySQL db that either no longer exists or we no longer have a user/pass to for these sites, but I think it worked out well enough.
The Guild is next though I'm not 100% sure how long that will take. It has the disadvantage of having never actually been completed and I don't think I can get a general idea of what was there from the Internet Archive. Once that's done, next up is upgrading our forums to the latest phpBB and putting on some better anti-bot CAPTCHA stuff so we don't get 50 or so bot registrations per day. No, seriously, even years later we're still getting that many on a daily basis!
EDIT: JBravo upgraded our phpBB to the latest and we have newer CAPTCHAs enabled so hopefully that will cut down on the spambots. I just sent out a giant spam mail to announce that to all forum members.
To make it less of a herculean task to update the sites after I bring them back to life, I might end up partly reconverting them to PHP at least for a "header" and "footer" like the old PHP version of the sites used to do. We'll see how that goes.
I am afraid I am no longer confident that we'll release before the year is out; I was highly optimistic many a month ago, but hey, things didn't happen. I'm still committed to getting this released so I'm chugging away at what I can do when I get the time for it. Thanks again for your patience! I'm glad I can at least finally show you some tangible progress!
