EUC - The time has come

Hello all,

I'm afraid that the time has come. I have decided that I will no longer be able to Administer the EU Chronicle forums.
Under my recent oversight, the forum has become stale and uninteresting. We all hang around because we like each other and it is a nice quiet corner of the internet, but the site must grow and adapt to live and stay fresh.

Don't panic though, I will still host the site and keep the technical back-end alive.

I do however want to ask you all out there if anyone would like to become the main administrator and site manager for EU Chronicle.

This person would be given the full administrator access, and would be able to do (almost) anything they like with the site. They would be responsible for upgrades to the vBulletin software, the skins, forum maintenance, new features etc.
I would remain then only as sponsor, host and system admin.

I hope this will then become a new era for the site, and that under someone else's tender care it will grow and become what it should have been.

The skills necessary are:

• To become familiar with vBulletin publishing suite V4, how to implement, manage and administer it
• Web Development skills; images, some html etc.
• Passion in the subject matter
• Drive to market the site in the Entropia Universe and encourage it's growth.

I'm sure that the existing folks that have helped to manage the site over the years will continue to help and support the new guy as they have me - i am ever thankful for all of your help.

If you are interested, please PM me here at the site or email me at phunksta@eu-chronicle.com

Regards,
Phunksta

 

I guess what we can do is organise a team of the folks that want to take it on, then I'll hand over the administration interface. From there it can then be up to you guys how you shape the site?

 

I would love to be able to continue to do it, but since having kids, getting promoted etc. my time seems to be an ever dwindling resource.
The activities needed to keep the forum going get left behind, and it becomes stale as a result.
I do feel also it's necessary to have some passion about the game, and unfortunately I seem to have lost it. EU is actually a lot more interesting these days after the 'big' VU has gooten out of the way; vehicles etc. but I can't recapture the original enjoyment I used to get from it. WHen I do get the chance I'm occasionally dabbling in LOTRO and finding I'm enjoying that like I originally did PE/EU, and this time I'm taking it slow, enjoying the story and skilling slowly. The quests are engaging, the story interesting, and it runs on my mac which EU won't ;)

I'd dearly love to see ppl who are still enthusiastic about EU take over and bring that power to the forum, and make it a place for all players to enjoy. This is why I'm still willing to stay as sponsor/sysadmin but I think the actual site needs a breath of fresh air.

It seems quite a few of you are still willing. Nexus your efforts were far from feeble - I simply failed to use your input as I never found time to look at it all properly. The new vBulletin uses an 'interesting' method of setting up the themes that requires very little coding. Once you are dabbling in there I'm sure you'll have good fun. The software is all paid for pretty much for ever, and hopefully donations etc will still partially cover the hosting. Above that it's unlikely anything will need to be spent in real money - but I think some expenditure on adscreen entries etc. might revitalise the site a bit. The event we used to run here were great -you lot put such great work into them it's such a shame the interest died off.

Well enough navel gazing - assemble your team and let's get you EMPOWERED to make EUC YOUR OWN ;)

 

I would love to be able to continue to do it, but since having kids, getting promoted etc. my time seems to be an ever dwindling resource.
The activities needed to keep the forum going get left behind, and it becomes stale as a result.
I do feel also it's necessary to have some passion about the game, and unfortunately I seem to have lost it. EU is actually a lot more interesting these days after the 'big' VU has gooten out of the way; vehicles etc. but I can't recapture the original enjoyment I used to get from it. WHen I do get the chance I'm occasionally dabbling in LOTRO and finding I'm enjoying that like I originally did PE/EU, and this time I'm taking it slow, enjoying the story and skilling slowly. The quests are engaging, the story interesting, and it runs on my mac which EU won't ;)

I'd dearly love to see ppl who are still enthusiastic about EU take over and bring that power to the forum, and make it a place for all players to enjoy. This is why I'm still willing to stay as sponsor/sysadmin but I think the actual site needs a breath of fresh air.

It seems quite a few of you are still willing. Nexus your efforts were far from feeble - I simply failed to use your input as I never found time to look at it all properly. The new vBulletin uses an 'interesting' method of setting up the themes that requires very little coding. Once you are dabbling in there I'm sure you'll have good fun. The software is all paid for pretty much for ever, and hopefully donations etc will still partially cover the hosting. Above that it's unlikely anything will need to be spent in real money - but I think some expenditure on adscreen entries etc. might revitalise the site a bit. The event we used to run here were great -you lot put such great work into them it's such a shame the interest died off.

Well enough navel gazing - assemble your team and let's get you EMPOWERED to make EUC YOUR OWN ;)

 

I have a test system which unfortunately got spammed to hell.
I'll reset it with a fresh copy of the live site, then you guys can have at.

Can you formalise a list of ppl who want in for me? It might be an idea to make a discussion group here on the live site.

 

Hello again all,

Just got back from holiday, so I haven't done much on handing the forum over yet.
Also new news is that my hosting is changing very soon, so I will be forced to rebuild the site on a new system anyway.

If there are no massive objections, I will rebuild to the latest version of vBulletin. This will be a bit messy during the transition but ultimately it should save an awful lot of time.

From what I've read so far a few of you are interested in getting this underway, although nexus I'm guessing you're busy with entropia star at the moment. You will of course be welcome to use the EuC platform to further those aims if you like: I'm sure it's possible to do that although it might not be straightforward.

Anyroad, I'll keep you up to date, and I'll get in contact with those of you showing an interest in due course.

Thanks everyone!

 

Ok, Anna, Chela, nexus7:

I've dropped you into the 'Super Moderators' group for now, so this should open up all of the forums to you.

See what that lets you do, it should open up all sorts of abilities.

I still need to work on a set of full admin permissions that keeps that last bastion of control with the main admins (currently still burgerman and I) but I'm just starting the job of moving/upgrading the site as I type so look forward to the update!