09-01-2020, 02:14 PM
Hello,
I've been active one way or another in the Nintendo fan & fangaming community for what seems like a really long time now, since about 2006. I remember a lot of things, like when MFGG's current site was brand new, when Mark Brown was Bacon & Shane was Badass Bill, and most relevant, when The Shyguy Kingdom was a major sprite resource.
For a few years now, I've been concerned with the future of The Shyguy Kingdom. I think it's becoming increasingly important to archive the history of fangaming & resources. I can think of several sites that are lost to time, and I'm sure I don't even know a fraction of the sizable communities that existed.
I made a few topics on MFGG:
https://phpbb.mfgg.net/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=20797
https://forums.mfgg.net/thread-234-post-...l#pid23263
I did end up noticing (embarrassingly late since it was on the front page) that Dazz / tSR took over hosting at some point. I believe this to still be the case? If not, it would be cool if someone could point me in the right direction.
Recently, someone made a topic that caught my eye, despite my inactivity lately:
https://forums.mfgg.net/showthread.php?tid=2500
The site appears to be down. Since it's a 500 error, it seems like the server's updates have broken compatibility with the site's old code, though that is just a guess. If this is the case, it was inevitable. Even MFGG's site doesn't really work on PHP 7, as far as I can tell.
http://tsgk.captainn.net/
In the interest of preserving this piece of fangaming history, I would like to make a request, which may or not be practical:
Could we make it a fangaming community project to fix the site? I don't know what the ethics of open-sourcing the website would be, considering the developer is no longer with us. Rest in peace, Webster. But I'd like to open up a dialogue: perhaps another option would be to make a private github repo or something like that where selected developers can take a look at the site & see if the issues are easily fixed. Not to mention that version control is awesome for preservation.
Thanks for reading, I hope we can reach the best possible outcome for preservation of our community's history
I've been active one way or another in the Nintendo fan & fangaming community for what seems like a really long time now, since about 2006. I remember a lot of things, like when MFGG's current site was brand new, when Mark Brown was Bacon & Shane was Badass Bill, and most relevant, when The Shyguy Kingdom was a major sprite resource.
For a few years now, I've been concerned with the future of The Shyguy Kingdom. I think it's becoming increasingly important to archive the history of fangaming & resources. I can think of several sites that are lost to time, and I'm sure I don't even know a fraction of the sizable communities that existed.
I made a few topics on MFGG:
https://phpbb.mfgg.net/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=20797
https://forums.mfgg.net/thread-234-post-...l#pid23263
I did end up noticing (embarrassingly late since it was on the front page) that Dazz / tSR took over hosting at some point. I believe this to still be the case? If not, it would be cool if someone could point me in the right direction.
Recently, someone made a topic that caught my eye, despite my inactivity lately:
https://forums.mfgg.net/showthread.php?tid=2500
The site appears to be down. Since it's a 500 error, it seems like the server's updates have broken compatibility with the site's old code, though that is just a guess. If this is the case, it was inevitable. Even MFGG's site doesn't really work on PHP 7, as far as I can tell.
http://tsgk.captainn.net/
In the interest of preserving this piece of fangaming history, I would like to make a request, which may or not be practical:
Could we make it a fangaming community project to fix the site? I don't know what the ethics of open-sourcing the website would be, considering the developer is no longer with us. Rest in peace, Webster. But I'd like to open up a dialogue: perhaps another option would be to make a private github repo or something like that where selected developers can take a look at the site & see if the issues are easily fixed. Not to mention that version control is awesome for preservation.
Thanks for reading, I hope we can reach the best possible outcome for preservation of our community's history