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Project Restoration (Phase Three in the works!)

Tags: #Varg'Ette  #Build Restoration  #Character Building  #Project Restoration  #Save our Builds 
  • October 6, 2016

    Hello minions, greetings and salutations from Varg'Ette, your Thrassian Overlords of Awesome. 

     

    The site move has resulted in many great things. New partnerships, new features, new horizons and we appreciate our members for sticking with us while we sorted out issues with the new site. Change is never easy, lots to do to make a site that is a couple of months old function like a site that has run since 2011. It has been a challenge, it is a work in progress, we are a work in progress, and it is still a  work in progress. 

    One of the things that took a hit were our many builds in this section. Images did not port over from the site move, which left builds without images and some funky spacing. A thread was started where this was brought to our attention. 

    Save our Builds

    Varg'Ette refused to stand idly by and neither did our wonderful volunteers. If something's wrong, we'll endeavor to fix it and that is what this thread is for. We want to show you firsthand what we are doing with regard to restoring our builds. We want to keep you posted of our progress. That is the purpose of this thread.

    First and foremost, I want to extend a cool and slimy hand of gratitude to Noodles for the long chats where he and I hashed out the plan for this restoration project. Considering which way was going to result in the least amount of headeaches, running test sharing of images and uploading. I've already promised him a round of dead bodies for him to necro to his little heart's content. With Vargr and I running the group's front end stuff and dealing with New Site issues, including Vargr's archiving of our tags (bless him!) and my continued work with the Story Corner, that Noodles has stepped up, that all of the volunteers in the linked thread (Bonelord, Phil, Shinjin, Golden Fool, WuXiYang, thats them so far! More slimy sload hands for them!) above have stepped up speaks volumes on the amount of dedicated indivduals that lurk this site. The restoration of our builds, to be done by an elite, volunteer Thrassian Task Force of dedicated Polwygles is a three-phase endeavor. 

     

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    1. Phase One (Image Salvaging) - The task force will be downloading and cateloguing images from all the builds stored on the Old Ning site. This will be done using several google extensions; including an image file finder, and an image capturer that will capture an image of the build for reference. Volunteers will then be downloading images from the builds. Images will be organized into folders based on Build Name and Rank.

    2. Phase Two (Image Uploading) - The task force will be uploading their saved images onto a shared drive as folders. Links to these folders will be posted where they can be easily accessed for Phase 3.

    3. Phase Three (Build Editing) - The task force will be restoring builds by editing builds within this site. With much of our functionality restored, this will be made it easier, thought it is still a large task. 

     

    Right now, the Task Force has just received their assignments for Phase 1. I can hear the fainting already. Yeah, a lot of us are doing upwards of around 200 builds each. That's a lot. So... 

    Will the builds be restored overnight?  No. Let us be realistic.  This is a site that for many of the task force is a hobby. They are volunteering their time, but this is a hobby, a passion, not their lives. Many of us also have a real life with jobs and stuff. We also want to enjoy what this site has to offer as well, participate in events, publish content, that sort of thing. So we ask for patience and understanding while we do this. Phases 1 and 2 will be of shorter duration than Phase 3. 

    In this thread, we will be keeping you updated on our progress. Number tabs on how many builds we've collected images for. Posting side by side comparisons of builds before and after restoration. Feel free to drop by and offer words of encouragement, or ask questions about the process. 

    We love this site, we want to make it a place where you can enjoy what you've created. And we will do this for you.  To BATTLE MINIONS!!!

     

     

    The Varg'Ette and the Elite Thrassian Task Force of Awesome. (One day, swear, I will stop the sload images, but not now. Not. Now.)

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    October 6, 2016
    It was just a couple hours... :D
  • October 6, 2016

    Noodles said: It was just a couple hours... :D

     

    A couple hours of me is enough to make anyone crazy. Just ask Karver. 

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    October 6, 2016

    Character Build: The Hamlet Captain

    Restored.

    Here are a couple of before images to demonstrate what the task force is doing.

  • Member
    October 6, 2016
    I would offee to join but Naaaah. I would just replace the images with phallic objects.
  • October 6, 2016

    Mirric said: I would offee to join but Naaaah. I would just replace the images with phallic objects.

    You made me snort my wine right now. *wipes laptop screen*

     

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    October 6, 2016
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    October 6, 2016

    Pages 1 & 2 of Exemplar have their images archived and full-page reference screenies taken... 20 builds. That's all I can do for tonight, but tomorrow's a new day ;D

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    October 6, 2016

    @Phil--those restos look fantastic! :D