Reviving lost websites ?

'Er now, what's all this then?

 

Fred. Nothing is established or been decided as yet. At this point no website other than web-birds is in the Safe Harbor queue. My primary focus right now is upgrading our server and moving this site from Invision Power to another platform. Right behind that is launching a new website at WW2.org. Nothing else is on my plate right now.

To date, I've never asked for a penny in donations or fundraising. We could certainly make good use of some income, but this decision to not accept donations was very deliberately made. When the time comes there will be an opportunity for members to donate, but it will only happen with full clarity and with a dedicated improvement plan in hand. Money will assuredly change the dynamic here, and I want to be sure that no one, ever, feels taken advantage of.

I'll be damned if any fundraising is done in my name without my 100% concent, and that issue is very much in doubt right now. If I'm going to decide on fundraising, I'll openly announce it. I won't do so by proxy.

And for God sakes my name isn't "Otto Bomb", it's Otto Torriero. I sometimes use that other name when I play online games, but Otto usually works just fine.

 

Just so people are aware, my previous post was directly addressing a few items that were in Fred's now edited post. The edits are such that the original context is gone and I now probably seem like a loon. I assure you my response was proportionate to the original post.

All I'll say is some very good things are in the pipeline here. I'll announce the plans and roadmap shortly.

 

I'm very tired of clicking links of great history sites and discovering they have become dead links. I'm looking to save as many as I am able.

We are moving forward with another efforts to create a very valuable resource at ww2.org. Details on this soon.

 

You're welcome to add anything from Hyperwar that you want, up to and including the whole shooting match. Our original mission was to get the docs out of the dusty boxes and folders and out where people could find them.

 

Now that's fantastic news. I'll keep you updates of developements.

 

Don't forget WWII Resources when you go grazing.

 

The Antebellum US Navy

Documents relating to the USN, 1775 to 1920.

Have fun.

 

Somebody should make a mirror of this one, too. http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/TWI/ I trot it out when people say the USians don't know much about the British war effort.

 

Thst link is broken, but I'll shoot you an email directly Opana, lets put some framework in place for making the info available, and we'll do what we can to get more people helping transcribe documents.

 

Linkage got out of control .

 

I hear you OMA, their modelling sections is really quite good. That site has been on my radar the past couple weeks after a member of both sites (WW2F and the zone site) emailed me about it. I've made a couple overtures to admins, but without success. Hopefully they get things sorted. When WWII info gets lost into the ether, it frustrates me to no end.

 

Yes.

Web-birds is still in the works. And a discussion board was folded into this one a couple years back. There was a modeling site called TRUX that is stored over at ww2talk. I'm currently trying to do what I can with another good discussion board, no success yet, but I'm very hopeful. Your question makes me realize that I do need to review our previous efforts and enumerate what we've done so far. Previous success is probably a good indicator that we can help others if they are in need.

The site rescue effort isn't a primary function here, but it will take on a greater profile once this website is migrated and upgraded. There is lot of work in the queue right now, but website rescue is a major part of what I'd like to do here.

 

Hi David. We are moving to a new software platform in a month or so. It's not useful to make any configuration changes here in the short term as they will all be lost in short order. The best I can suggest at this point is to revisit after the software migration.

I see this topic has you interested, are there any sites you are interested in seeing restored? This effort is as much a proactive effort as it is a standing offer to website admins who could use help. I'm always willing and able to help admins keep their data online.

Discussion forums are of particular interest to me, I am currently trying to talk to a couple admins who appear to have lost interest I their sites. With any luck we can help preserve their legacies.