We’re staying!

April 2nd, 2008 by lenina | Posted in Site Update |

Thanks to the generous spirits of someof our beloved Arkadians (Courtney, Nils, Tom, Anne and specially Don, who has helped us in repeated ocassions with very generous donations) we gathered enough money to pay our April bill! We also have some money left for next month, which should be covered with this money and the ads payments that will arrive on the 25th (they’re a 2 month payment of 70 USD) so we can say we’re sure to stay in the server until June 1st, by then, hopefully our financial situation will be better too, so keep fingers crossed, Arkadians!

It will take a bit to unpack the files we had to get ready for the move, but hope to have everything running by tomorrow. Also, good news is that the need to zip up so many folders, created several usable zips files for a finally working zip section. We are still going to be changing the system, but we are not sure yet when or how it’ll work. However we can assure you it’s going to be better than it how it works now.

We know we’ve promised changes and upgrades and actions and updates for very very long with no delivery, and although it is not a valid excuse, the reason it hasn’t gone through is that our lives changed A LOT in the past year.

I started working, quit school, moved homes, had a parent retire… all this affected me economically, emotionally and time-wise. The spam flooding our beloved site was a disgrace too that no matter what plugins we installed can’t quite be solved except by manual deletion, we’ve been thinking of ways to have a forum that protects us better and that looks as less of a target to spammers, but we don’t quite know how yet. I must also say, that my limited knowledge and having had to make up things as we went out of need and not quite having the chance to plan or even figure things out, made for a less than ideal system and we are seeing now the consequences of that.

However, one good consequence of my work having taking over my life, is that I have learnt a lot of things, and this will make for a better system to hopefully make the arks what they used to be. I love the guys as much as ever, and promised the Arks would sail. I intend to keep my promise.

Up the Arks! Up the Albion!
xxxx