You may have noticed my absence from the Escargot community starting around late 2017. I’ve looked a little more into Escargot again (instead of actually doing work) and noticed the lovely new theme.
I’ve noticed some cool people celebrated my anniversary last June, and I thought that was pretty cool to be remembered like that.
Above all, I noticed Escargot Spaces has risen from its grave, and now people get to see 2017 me again. It has also changed hands from Michael to 45gratest (OhHelloThereImTheGuy on the MessengerGeek forums), and while I’m a little sad about the discontinuation of Groups (it could’ve been used in a pretty interesting fashion to chain together blogs) overall he’s a great guy and is doing an excellent job with the site. I’m very much looking forward to a new theme; Emesen looks and feels slapped together by someone with no WordPress development experience. And it was! Notice how I just burned myself?
How have I been doing since my hiatus? Well, I’ve been focusing on other projects and stuff on my Neocities website, dotcomboom. Of course, also, schoolwork has been keeping me pretty busy. I don’t tend to go by Nintel anymore. I’ve been listening to a lot of chiptunes, linked is a nice one I’ve been putting on repeat recently.
I can’t guarantee I’ll be nearly as active in the Escargot community as a year ago, but I am here to pop in and say hi. Thank you for the support when I worked on Emesen, and especially thank you to the people who made all this happen. I owe you one.
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October 15th, 2018 | #
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October 15th, 2018 | #
Nice to have you back! I was wondering what you were up to all these months. :P
I will agree that the groups could’ve been used as tie-ins to blogs (and it kinda was being used for that), but overall they seemed out of place.
Also, Michael is still technically the owner of Escargot Spaces itself. I’m just the new webmaster at the base level, even though I do have creative control over the site as well. However, same can be said for Michael, so I’m not trying to gain complete control over the site.
Regarding the new theme, It’s near the edge of being a custom CMS for Escargot Spaces, since the WordPress setup is really cruddy (e.g., Login and registration pages being copied over to blogs and admins having the ability to edit users’ posts and replies) and customizing the dashboard to make it fit the planned look of the site seems impossible at this point.
Also nice that you focused on passions outside of Escargot. Trying to get into the same habit here. :P
And I think you’re lucky you didn’t come back on MessengerGeek by late 2017. To put a long story short, its turned into massive hell by this year. lol.
~ 45gratest
October 16th, 2018 | #
Glad to see you back again.
~ sswag
October 16th, 2018 | #