News & Updates
Milestones (Jul 22, 2011)
It took a while, but Crazy Beautiful, the fanlisting for Cowboy Bebop's Vicious, finally reached its 250 Fans mark. One of the best villains of anime deserves lots more fans!
Closed Fanlistings (Jun 14, 2011)
I've closed several fanlisting that have had no more than a handful of fans join over the course of the last couple of years:
- Word: Preacher
- Lake Superior
- Roasted: Squirrel Nut Zippers
- Aural Resonance: Crispin Freeman
- Behind Blue Eyes: Prince Charming
- A Town Divided: Kaze no Yojimbo
- All In A Day's Work: Jack Hofner and Rowe Rickenbacker
There will probably be a few more by the end of the summer.
Archived: Icon Stuff (Mar 01, 2011)
I closed my LiveJournal page because I've long since lost interest in making
icon resources. The brush archive remains, and I've kept a few other icon bits
that are now archived:
• Misc Icons
• Icon Bases #1
• Icon Bases #2
• Icons & Bases Mix
There's not much organizing done beyond dumping them in various folders with a gallery script. Very D-I-Y! Use whatever you want; no credit necessary.
Server Move (Aug 23, 2010)
DreamHost has moved my domains to a new server, and I was warned that some scripts might not work afterwards. The move is complete, and so far the only thing I've noticed that is broken is a popup image script I was using on the Priest fanlisting. And a sudden slowness, which is probably temporary. I'll get the image script fixed soon, but as far as I can tell, the join/update/contact forms on all the fanlistings are working. Please let me know if there's any problems beyond those two problems I mentioned.
Major Site Overhaul (Jun 13, 2010)
When DreamHost upgraded php, I didn't realize it had borked all my pages that depended on mysql. Blah. Got rid of all of that, except for random stuff on the main page. I don't update the site enough any more to justify such high-maintenance scripting.
Also, converted all but the largest fanlistings to plain ol' html format, just like when I first started out doing this fanlisting thing. At this point, the scripts are more trouble than adding a few new fans here and there.
Updated NWLF (Apr 27, 2010)
No Winter Lasts Forever -- the Sess and Rin doujinshi site -- is inactive and has been for quite a while. I had no idea the gallery script no longer worked with the latest browsers or OS's. Sorry about that! I have updated to a new, and very simple, gallery script, so everything should be fine now.
Apologies, though, for those old, crappy scans. I'm tempted to take the site down completely because they're so bad, but I suppose even those are better than nothing.
Script Corruption (Mar 26, 2010)
Although it's been a while, I've had the usual problem with a bunch of txt files being wiped out on a number of fanlistings. Although I don't know why, exactly, this happens, it seems to be touched off when my join forms are being heavily spammed, which has been happening for the last few weeks.
I've uploaded the backups and everything is back to normal. Apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused.
Still Here! (Mar 10, 2010)
Just a brief entry to indicate the collective is alive, just quiet. Spent an hour cleaning up dead affiliate links on the fanlistings. Fun.
The plan for this summer is to convert a few more fanlistings to simple html files, especially those that are now only getting a handful of new members over the course of a year. I'll be keeping those 250+ on the flat file database for now, even though a lot of those only get a few new members a year as well.
It Only Took Five Years (Aug 01, 2009)
But the Cowboy Bebop fanlisting finally reached 2000 fans. Personally, I think it deserves ten times that, but I'm doing a little happy dance nonetheless.
Good things come to those that stick it out long enough!
