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Posted by Flynn on Thu Oct 23rd at 2:17pm 2008

Did the SnarkPit have to be changed from .com to .net and then have to be rebuilt completely because the guy with a rotting face and lipstick avatar not pay hosting fees?



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Posted by larchy on Thu Oct 23rd at 2:36pm 2008

The domain change had nothing to do with the site redesign AFAIK

Apparently the .com was lost due to being registered with a dodgy company that went bust... but that was long before I became involved with the site and may not have the details correct on that.

The site got redone from scratch really just because the old code was getting pretty outdated and the layout/design totally buried most of the content.

Some of the main changes have been to the database to allow a few new things to be added and hopefully organise things a bit better.



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Posted by Flynn on Fri Oct 24th at 6:44pm 2008

Thanks larchy smiley Doesn't a domain name require a monthly fee though? And I really appreciate you guys work on this site. The other site had a search feature which worked and searched specific forums and post history accessible through user profile. I know you guys are working hard to get this one up to speed smiley
I don't know much about website design so I don't expect to know why it needed to be replaced.

[ Edited by Flynn on Fri Oct 24th 2008 at 6:49pm - total edits: 1]



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Posted by Gwil on Sat Oct 25th at 9:48am 2008

snarkpit.com was lost, i can't remember why - it was probably the Oktagone fiasco that engulfed us (and many other sites) a while ago now. Needless to say Oktagone are now out of business.

As for fees, Leperous always paid the fees on time and in full, we were just the victim of circumstance. And no, the domain name only gets renewed on a biannual basis.



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Posted by Flynn on Sat Oct 25th at 7:05pm 2008

Thanks. I probably meant to ask more questions than this, except I don't remember them.


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Posted by Le Chief on Tue Oct 28th at 4:51am 2008

Whatever happened to the old "History of The Snarkpit" page on the website? I thaought that was something we where going to keep and add to as time went on smiley.


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Posted by larchy on Tue Oct 28th at 10:49am 2008

It shall return with the next site update (which is gonna be a big one!)





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Posted by Le Chief on Tue Oct 28th at 10:42pm 2008

Cool, looking forward to the next update smiley.


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