[admin post] Admin Post: Official Website Reopening!

Apr. 9th, 2021 01:57 pm
dawn_felagund: Stylized green tree with yellow leaves (swg logo new)
[personal profile] dawn_felagund posting in [community profile] silwritersguild


I am thrilled to announce that the Silmarillion Writers' Guild website has reopened after migrating to our new software! You can still find us at silmarillionwritersguild.org, and we always welcome new members.

In 2019, an upgrade on our web server through our aging archive software into disarray. Faced with the choice of rebuilding the site with new software or watching our site slowly die, as our software became increasingly obsolete, we chose to rebuild. And here we are now, with a new site that we hope will offer new and better features than our old archive.

We also hope to expand the site, especially to different types of fanworks. We've started by creating parity between written fanworks and audio fanworks and series, which were treated differently on our old site. We'll be adding other types of fanworks in the months to come.

This is an important turning point for the SWG, and we're elated to have made it this far! Watch this space for the announcement of an official ribbon-cutting event in the next couple of weeks!

Date: 2021-04-12 09:38 pm (UTC)
arcanetrivia: a light purple swirl on a darker purple background (Default)
From: [personal profile] arcanetrivia
Should I be getting an error on the front page right now? silmarillionwritersguild.org leads to https://www.silmarillionwritersguild.org/silmarillionwritersguild/index.php which has a menu and a sidebar, but where I suppose main page content is meant to be, it just says "The requested page could not be found."


Date: 2021-04-13 01:46 am (UTC)
arcanetrivia: a light purple swirl on a darker purple background (Default)
From: [personal profile] arcanetrivia
Yes, even after a hard refresh (Ctrl+F5) and in both Firefox and Chrome.

Date: 2021-04-30 11:28 pm (UTC)
arcanetrivia: a light purple swirl on a darker purple background (Default)
From: [personal profile] arcanetrivia
I'm still seeing "The requested page could not be found.", by the way. Firefox, Chrome, and Edge (which I never use heh) as well as Safari on my iPad and my husband sees the same on his computer too. What should be in that area, anyway?

edit: it seems like sometimes when I enter https://www.silmarillionwritersguild.org/ it forwards to https://silmarillionwritersguild.org/silmarillionwritersguild/index.php (which gives the failure message) and sometimes it doesn't (and looks OK). Bizarre behavior.
Edited Date: 2021-04-30 11:30 pm (UTC)

Date: 2021-05-12 05:50 pm (UTC)
arcanetrivia: (tolkien (caras galadhon))
From: [personal profile] arcanetrivia
Hard to confirm either way since the base domain seems to be forwarding me properly in all three browsers now. If I deliberately go to https://silmarillionwritersguild.org/silmarillionwritersguild/index.php I still get "The requested page could not be found", but there's no reason to do that. Sorry to be such a headache! I wouldn't worry about spending more time on this :)

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