Stop the Presses! Update!

[foxmonkey]

Literally...stop the presses.

The Stop the Presses site is down. For the last few weeks users have had varying degrees of success accessing illuminations.nu sites. Because of these problems, illuminations.nu moved to a new webhost yesterday afternoon. The sites are down at the moment, until the new domain is globally propagated.

Now the bad news.

During the information transfer, every image file on the site was corrupted. If you're a regular at Stop the Presses, you know what this means. The site as it was cannot be recovered.

Scotty and I had a great time, and through the site, we made new friends. We'd like to thank Kaelie, Kristen, Gale, Aylex, Liz and Sai for their help in making 2003 a wonderful year.

Stop the Presses will relaunch in January and we hope to have an even better year in 2004!

The Halloween Scenefest will go live as planned this Friday, Halloween evening (October 31st). Watch for an announcement!

Thanks again to everyone who enjoyed the site. We'll be back better than ever in 2004. :-)

Stop the Presses. All JuC, all the time.

Comments

[tallories.livejournal.com]

*hugs* How bad is it? Can't the images be replaced easier than, say, site content?

[foxmonkey.livejournal.com]

*hugs* How bad is it? Can't the images be replaced easier than, say, site content?

The thing is, we do a thing called the Illustrated, Annotated Justin, and the Illustrated, Annotated Chasez. We pick out five quotes each from the author of the week, and link those up to pictures that seem to illustrate the quote. It's a labor of love, and not one that could be easily duplicated, if at all. We've had six authors, so that would be sixty pictures and quotes to match up - seventy, because our kick-off author had ten quotes per Justin and JC. We could look for new pictures, but there'd still be page formatting...eeee. Like I said, even if we brought the site back up to speed (if the images can't be easily retrieved from the old host), it would still take a bit of work to get everything up and running.

I also lost everything I did for our humor issue. And we've done other things with special graphics...aiii, I can't believe I didn't save it all to disk. I know better, that's the sad part. :-(

If the text had been lost...ugh, don't want to think about it!

I have a great host and hopefully, she'll be able to retrieve the files from the old site. I've got my fingers crossed!

[lisachasez.livejournal.com]

Aww, that's so sad. It's a great idea, so I'm happy it'll be back in the new year.

[tallories.livejournal.com]

I hope so, too... I didn't realize that so much of the site was graphics-based. *hugs tight* Hang in there!