The RPGPundit Has Moved!

tenbones · September 06, 2013, 04:26:34 PM

Now the NSA can learn who their secret masters truly are!!!

GO Team CTHUGGHA!!!!

Mark Plemmons · September 06, 2013, 04:47:16 PM

Quote from: RPGPundit;688902Yes, unwilling to wait for Xanga to get its shit together, I've decided that now is as good a time as any to move my blog to a new location.

So here it is:

http://therpgpundit.blogspot.com/

Be sure to check it out for an interesting post about Family in old-school RPGs.

RPGPundit

If you still can, I'd recommend posting one final article on your old blog, specifically about the move. I follow your blog on my phone and tablet, and didn't know about the move until I saw it here.

Warthur · September 06, 2013, 05:02:39 PM

As I understand it from the first post in the thread, Xanga are basically holding the blog for hostage - Pundit can't post anything to it unless he pays them money.

That being the case, I absolutely don't blame him for walking away, and I especially don't blame him for not even taking the chance to post an "I'm moving" post. It'd defeat the point of moving in protest at the fee to pay the fee anyway to make a post about how you don't want to pay the fee.

cnath.rm · September 07, 2013, 03:16:05 PM

Quote from: Endless Flight;688976You weren't able to import your database from the other blog, eh? That's too bad.

Xanga's says something about being able to download ones archived posts, but I'm not sure if that was until the end of their fundraiser, or if it's still free for bloggers to grab.

Warthur · September 07, 2013, 05:23:42 PM

Well, it's one thing being able to download the database and it's another thing to be able to import it into Blogger. Are they even compatible?

Bradford C. Walker · September 08, 2013, 12:06:02 AM

The archived files are all in .xml format. If you can work with that, great.

RPGPundit · September 08, 2013, 03:52:32 AM

Quote from: Spinachcat;688908I agree with your article about family in RPGs. I remember how cool it was when Oriental Adventures came out for D&D and suddenly we had a setting where we had to deal with concerns of loyalty (clan, family, etc) quite different than Greyhawk or Blackmoor.

Well, if you like that you'll really like Arrows of Indra, I'd think.

RPGPundit

RPGPundit · September 08, 2013, 03:52:42 AM

Quote from: Warthur;688917I can't wait for the inevitable edition warriors complaining how they preferred the 1st edition of your blog to this one.

Hah!

RPGPundit · September 08, 2013, 03:53:32 AM

Quote from: Endless Flight;688976You weren't able to import your database from the other blog, eh? That's too bad.

All of my blog up to a year ago is archived here on theRPGsite (in the Pundit's forum), and I should be able to continue doing so over this next year. So I don't think most of the material will be lost.

RPGPundit

estar · September 08, 2013, 09:12:16 AM

First thanks for the shout out. Glad everybody is having fun with Scourge. Second, I don't think you are filling out the Titles for your posts. This makes it hard to link too and it doesn't show up on a blog roll either.

Shawn Driscoll · September 08, 2013, 10:53:50 AM

Quote from: RPGPundit;688902Yes, unwilling to wait for Xanga to get its shit together, I've decided that now is as good a time as any to move my blog to a new location.

So here it is:

http://therpgpundit.blogspot.com/

Be sure to check it out for an interesting post about Family in old-school RPGs.

RPGPundit

Yey, Blogspot! I like it for blogging. Added you to my follows.

Mistwell · September 08, 2013, 01:08:57 PM

Quote from: estar;689508First thanks for the shout out. Glad everybody is having fun with Scourge. Second, I don't think you are filling out the Titles for your posts. This makes it hard to link too and it doesn't show up on a blog roll either.

Agreed. The missing titles causes the blog to be lost in my blog reader. I mean, the posts are there, but unless you're looking for them, they are not noticeable as it just shows up as a paragraph of text with no title to call it out as a separate thing from a prior blog.

Zachary The First · September 08, 2013, 02:06:37 PM

Oh, updated the link on my Blogroll, as well, so you your posts should be showing up in my sidebar.

RPGPundit · September 08, 2013, 06:44:57 PM

Quote from: Warthur;689197As I understand it from the first post in the thread, Xanga are basically holding the blog for hostage - Pundit can't post anything to it unless he pays them money.

That being the case, I absolutely don't blame him for walking away, and I especially don't blame him for not even taking the chance to post an "I'm moving" post. It'd defeat the point of moving in protest at the fee to pay the fee anyway to make a post about how you don't want to pay the fee.

Precisely.

I'm counting on word of mouth for people to figure out where I've gone. So please spread the word!

RPGPundit · September 08, 2013, 06:49:29 PM

Quote from: estar;689508First thanks for the shout out. Glad everybody is having fun with Scourge. Second, I don't think you are filling out the Titles for your posts. This makes it hard to link too and it doesn't show up on a blog roll either.

Gotcha. Starting to put in titles now.

Any other advice on the technical end of things?