<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal; border-collapse: collapse" class="Apple-style-span">Recently the site moved to a new server and you may have noticed a lot of "page not found" errors. The history of the site is detailed somewhere; in a nutshell it was our first project and we didn't follow best-practices. The community asked for a development site they could create project and make them public or private and we delivered as best as we knew how. We are considering building a new Star Frontiers website and would like your input.<div><br /></div><div><b>What is involved?</b><br />I'd like to say; "We need 2,500 to hire a developer under Bill's leadership." :-) </div><div>But for now it's just the few of us that can dedicate valuable time to making a site. </div><div><ul><li style="margin-left: 15px">A completely new site; <span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px">That means a bright shiny new site that is efficient and fast, with streamlined theme and behind-the-scen</span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px"></span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px">es functions and data constructs.</span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px">No content; new site will <span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px">be blank, empty, ready for content. If I do it, it will be up to the project owners to decide if/how to migrate that data to the new site. I'll be here to help migrate content.</span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px">Old site under a different URL </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px">where people can copy and past as they wish.</span></li></ul></div><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px"><div><b>Will I loose my content?</b></div><div><ul><li style="margin-left: 15px"><span style="font-size: small">No, the old site will be up, you can migrate whatever you wish.</span></li></ul></div></span><div><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px"><b>What content can be migrated automatically?</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px"><div style="margin-bottom: 0.2em; text-align: left" dir="ltr"><ul><li style="margin-left: 15px">Forums - we are investigating way to migrate forum posts, not all but the ones that have useful information.</li></ul></div></span></div><div><div><b>Projects </b></div><div><ul><li style="margin-left: 15px">I noticed projects really never were finished, how should we address this with the new site?</li></ul><div><b>Improvements and New Features</b></div></div></div><div><ul><li style="margin-left: 15px">What improvements or new features would you like to see?</li><li style="margin-left: 15px">Documentation - something this sites lacks; How to use this site.</li></ul></div></span>
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