ANNOUNCEMENT: The Temple of the Sentinels.

[panik]

I’ll be taking the Temple website down on January 8th 2009.

There’s a combination of factors involved; I won’t bore you with all my reasons- the ever-increasing cost, which the current exchange rate has massively exacerbated, is the precipitating factor but it’s not just about money - the £££ isn't even the main reason, tbh; it’s also about the time and the hassle and just the sheer grief that running this website has been bringing me lately.

I used to get great joy from the Temple but it’s been dying a slow and painful death for some time; the only part that gets any traffic now is the downloads page and - I know a lot of people use and value the downloads but they are the most problematic, troublesome, frustrating and expensive part of the site. I’m looking into moving them to pastures new; a couple of people have kindly offered to look into taking them on and I’m hoping we can work something out so they can remain available. In the meantime, I would strongly suggest that anyone who uses the downloads page a lot simply burns the files on to DVD. It’s very simple to do (I'll happily post instructions if anyone needs them!) and is far and away the safest way to have the eps to watch whenever, wherever. It’s what I do with everything I download if I know I’m going to want to watch more than once.

The fic and reports will be moving to a new site (which will have the same name) as soon as I can fix it up.

The chat-rooms, message board, galleries and interactive galleries will all go. Tbh, looking at the traffic stats, I don’t think anyone will miss them much, they’ve been moribund  for a long time, but if there’s anything there you want to keep, download it asap as it’ll all be gone forever once the site comes down.

Once again, I apologise to everyone who’s used and enjoyed my site over the years. The decision hasn’t been made lightly. No one could be sadder about this than I am myself.

Cross-posted to ts_talk , ts_news  and TSSF.

Comments

Re: Temple

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm glad you got some use from it, even if only for a short time. The downloads are moving as soon as I can organise that - there's 17gb of vids to move so it's no easy task - but I think I have a home for them now, I'm just setting that up. Some of other stuff like my fic and the reports are going on a new website that should be up in a week or two.

hi again

[(Anonymous)]

I wouldn't be on my knees like this if there wasn't the problem with the regional codes on American dvds which disenanble standard European laptops to read them out, so even if there was more than season 1 released on dvd, they wouldn't be of any use and most importanty: I guess the interview snippets weren't on it and I was most looking forward to seeing/ listening to them, your description of them sounded su much fun:) So I really appreciate your efforts, but take your time, though, I' ve got exams I should be preparing for right now anyway- in South American anthropology, no kiddin!;)
Just tell me, will the place you're going to take the eps to be accessible from outside the US? I'm German, you see...
Have a good week and you know how the South American peoples had one hell of a way to fight melancholy? *One take a sip of the juice of the san pedro cactus...* ;)

Re: hi again

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

If you could access the Temple downloads, you'll be able to access them from the new site - there's no region coding on downloads. The interviews aren't taken from the Sentinel DVDs btw, they're from a fan-made disc I've had for years.

I never had the season 1 eps uploaded since they're available commercially and there are copyright issues.

Have you tried downloading a crack for the DVD-coding? I'm in the UK (region 2) and I've never had any trouble playing region 1 DVDs either on a DVD player or on my laptop.

I hope this helps. Good luck with the exams!