New Site Proposal

[glasswalker]

Ok, I posted this in one of the threads, so sorry about the double post, but I decided afterwards it might be better to put as seperate thread...

I have been hanging out on the .net forums since very early in the game... Heroscape is one of my and my wife's favorite games... And all of it is thanks to the great community at heroscape.net

I was never top poster in the forums, but I was there at least once a day, to check on updates, and hang out... and I said my piece when needed... But here is the time I am gonna step up and offer my part to the community... Because we need a site like the old .net (minus the parts that caused this of course) to keep us together, and keep it going the way we were...

I am a network administrator for a large ISP in Canada, I own my own servers, in our datacenter... and have plenty of space and bandwidth to host the site for free... I am also an experienced programmer, so I have no problems getting it all up and running...

Anywhoo, if hero is willing, I would be happy to take over the heroscape.net domain, and fire up a new site ASAP with full (uncensored, unrestricted) forums, and some of the faq, and other data that has been salvaged (and confirmed OK so far)... And as the other stuff comes available I will keep on top of getting it online...

Also I would love the help from anyone else involved strongly in the community, Bunjee, Chameleon, Uranus, Grungebob, Logrey, and anyone else I forgot...

Let me know what everyone thinks of this idea, and if it is a welcome offer, than we can start ASAP on getting it up and running (seriously people, I could have a rudimentary site up within a couple hours upon saying "GO" lol)

Thanks, to everyone in the community that made this a great game for me, and I am looking forward to rebuilding that community, wherever it might be!

[exrod]

[screamingtruth]

I think it's a great fortune... my only hesitation would come in not knowing you from the boards and being afraid of a great divide. What does everyone else think about this?

[bdog]

Dang....I love seeing all the support. I hope HERO likes the idea. It sounds good to me.

[glasswalker]

I can understand the reservation... makes me wish I had posted more on the old site... But I did post. I contributed to many things, in small ways

I also offered to contribute my programming talents a few times, (on a couple projects)... But I hadn't really come out in full force, so many of you likely don't remember me at all

Anywhoo, I wouldn't want to do this, unless the community is onboard... I am simply offering my services and resources to help the community. If everyone would rather it be somewhere else, I would go with that... (I would much rather the site go wherever it needs to be to maintain the strong community we had at hs.net, rather than set it up myself, and scatter the community on it)

Any other oppinions? As I said, if everyone is onboard, then I would love to get on it right away, if not, then I will help however I can...

Thanks!

[screamingtruth]

I would love to see it I just want to make sure that no one else is working on it and we don't end up with two. Noodlemans said it would take him weeks to do if you are more capable of getting something going now I'm for it. I have the FAQ text when you need it. And the gallery pics we can get from hero. For my part (whatever that means) I say go for it. Build us something. Here are your go to people: As I said I have FAQ. You'll need to get the gallery from Hero I know Bunjee is also highly involved in the gallery and Noodlemans may have a hand in it as well. Grungebob Cham and Bunjee are our Loyal Moderators so I think it's a given that they should keep thier roles. Also Noodleman has alot of the Maps and such downloaded. I would encourage anyone who has anything on thier hardrives that you don't see pop up on the new site to put it up.

[noodlemans]

I'd be interested and I could help in any way possible.

[finrod]

YES!!!!

Yes, yes, yes, yes, YES!

Let's do it.

The site name can NOT be the problem. There are plenty of Hasbro-related site names out there.

Let Heroscape.net arise from the ashes!!!!

[boardgamegeek]

When will it be done? Go go go!

[glasswalker]

Well I will start on getting the site designed and running in a temp domain, should have it operational by this afternoon / this evening (I am at work now so I would work on it on and off)

I don't want to make it official though, until I get a bunch more replies in this thread I want to see how the whole community feels...

Also haven't heard from hero about the domain, so that is a big issue as well (plus I have emailed hero about a copy of the email he sent out, so that I know what the issues were that brought the site down in the first place... I would like to avoid that if possible)

Thanks!

[grungebob]

Sounds good to me!!

[finrod]

Glasswalker, if you're willing to do this, I'd recommend looking at other fan sites of Hasbro-related merchandise to get an idea of what they'll allow and what they won't.

The examples I know best, obviously (since I keep harping on it) are GI Joe related ones (yojoe.com, joecustoms.com, joesightings.com, etc.), but there are also many Transformers related sites, for other examples.

Another friend has informed me that Mattel once tried to shut down he-man.org, but actually backpedaled from fan reaction:

Mattel was actually going to shutdown he-man.org stating copyright issues. Theere was a big deal for a while about it on their site with Val Staples (the one that runs the site) giving details about what was going on. He encouraged people that were going to the cons where Mattel would be in attendance to voice their displeasure. Apparently it worked. Their official word (the Mattel staff on hand) was that legal had decided to seek those actions and that they'd do what they could to let Mattel know what the fans are saying. They tried to pass the buck on legal too though.

[screamingtruth]

Ok I've been in touch with hero and disscussing the new site he thinks it would be better to just select a new name and he'll just forward to it. I think this is a good Idea as we won't drop anyone and we don't have to worry about any old heat being transfered over to us from the old name. There were several I liked in the names thread the best of which was Noodlemans HSNetters.

[boardgamegeek]

I e-mailed Hasbro about why they took it down. I hope they reply.

[jim]

Sounds good to me Glasswalker.

Jim