Alright, so I just wanted to share a site update with everyone. I was waiting for things to be further along, but it looks like things are going to take a lot longer than I had anticipated.
So to start with I have an announcement regarding teamswift, I finally was able to work out a deal and purchase the site from Jess at the beginning of July. This has been a long time coming, I was working on this for months. It was partly this which has distracted me from doing some of the work to the the repository that I had initally planned.
The domain name is now owned by yours truly, and it is currently pointing here to the repository. If you search for teamswift.net it should bring you here. I hadn't originally planned to point it here, but there have been some hiccups in getting the actual site database and info transfered to me. At this point I have no idea how long that will take or if it's even going to happen unfortunatly. I will keep working on it, but for now I don't have it and I don't know when I will. Because of this I went ahead and pointed the domain here, so that orphaned swifters could find us, and as a result you might have noticed there has been a marked increase in new members, which is a great thing for the site.
I wanted to wait, until I had teamswift up and running and all the bits ironed out before sharing, but the cat's out of the bag already with the domain redirecting here and I felt I should share with all of you where we are with things.
A couple of quick points I want to address:
1. The repository is here to stay, no matter what I decide to do with teamswift if and when I get the site data, the repository will stay here and continue to grow and be the best site that we can make it.
2. Well what will you do with teamswift when/if you finally get the site data? I'm not 100% sure yet what will happen with it, but there are several possibilities. One way or another I will make the site available as a resource to be searched. The way things are looking right now it may end up just hosted as is so that search will work and we can use it as a reference archive resource. I'm sure many of you will have strong opinions about what should be done, I'd be happy to hear them, however until I actually have the site in my possesion it's all a mute point really.
I just want to reaffirm everyone that the repository is here to stay anything posted here is safe and will be for the foreseeable future unless something catastrophic happens to me. Let's hope that's not the case! Even if/when teamswift is finally back up, it will not be to replace this site, it will likely either be merged in, or hosted as a static resource. I personally plan to start cleaning up and moving over a lot of the data from teamswift that I have in my archive/webscrape manually. I do have it posted at www.ssgtirep.com/tsarchive however it is not fully functional and you can't search which is probably the most important feature that is missing. I have no idea when the site data will be available, but I'm not going to sit around doing nothing waiting for it in the meantime.
Anyhow, that's all I have to say about it for now. I'll try to keep you guys posted on any updates
So to start with I have an announcement regarding teamswift, I finally was able to work out a deal and purchase the site from Jess at the beginning of July. This has been a long time coming, I was working on this for months. It was partly this which has distracted me from doing some of the work to the the repository that I had initally planned.
The domain name is now owned by yours truly, and it is currently pointing here to the repository. If you search for teamswift.net it should bring you here. I hadn't originally planned to point it here, but there have been some hiccups in getting the actual site database and info transfered to me. At this point I have no idea how long that will take or if it's even going to happen unfortunatly. I will keep working on it, but for now I don't have it and I don't know when I will. Because of this I went ahead and pointed the domain here, so that orphaned swifters could find us, and as a result you might have noticed there has been a marked increase in new members, which is a great thing for the site.
I wanted to wait, until I had teamswift up and running and all the bits ironed out before sharing, but the cat's out of the bag already with the domain redirecting here and I felt I should share with all of you where we are with things.
A couple of quick points I want to address:
1. The repository is here to stay, no matter what I decide to do with teamswift if and when I get the site data, the repository will stay here and continue to grow and be the best site that we can make it.
2. Well what will you do with teamswift when/if you finally get the site data? I'm not 100% sure yet what will happen with it, but there are several possibilities. One way or another I will make the site available as a resource to be searched. The way things are looking right now it may end up just hosted as is so that search will work and we can use it as a reference archive resource. I'm sure many of you will have strong opinions about what should be done, I'd be happy to hear them, however until I actually have the site in my possesion it's all a mute point really.
I just want to reaffirm everyone that the repository is here to stay anything posted here is safe and will be for the foreseeable future unless something catastrophic happens to me. Let's hope that's not the case! Even if/when teamswift is finally back up, it will not be to replace this site, it will likely either be merged in, or hosted as a static resource. I personally plan to start cleaning up and moving over a lot of the data from teamswift that I have in my archive/webscrape manually. I do have it posted at www.ssgtirep.com/tsarchive however it is not fully functional and you can't search which is probably the most important feature that is missing. I have no idea when the site data will be available, but I'm not going to sit around doing nothing waiting for it in the meantime.
Anyhow, that's all I have to say about it for now. I'll try to keep you guys posted on any updates
