Website Hacked

[Ian Balboa]

The website was recently hacked, and I had to restore it again. Probably lost about 2 weeks worth of changes. I am no longer prepared to support the website, as it is taking up too much of my time. If the site goes down again I will replace it with a static version of the site, which means no user IDs and no forum amongst other things. Unless someone is willing to take over my support role of course... Any volunteers?

[David Keys]

Meetup.com was suggested to replace the DOTH site.  From my experience at http://www.meetup.com/London-Indie-RPG-Meetup-Group/, that can attract quite a lot of new players from the site’s regular mail outs to the thousands of members.

 

To manage this, http://www.meetup.com/London-DnD/ have regular ‘Beginner Tuesdays’ to organise the new players.  Details of this are at http://www.meetup.com/London-DnD/events/118709632/.  Hopefully, there would be enough new GMs amongst the new players to organise their own games going forward.

 

I understand that we are only low on numbers on Tuesdays so Meetup.com might not be the way to go (especially if we keep ending up in the restaurant).

 

An alternative would be to use http://www.ukroleplayers.com/forum/ who offer free club hosting.  http://www.ukroleplayers.com/ is a popular site with UK non-d20 gamers and the convention crowd.

Dave, who runs the site, can be contacted through http://www.ukroleplayers.com/contact-us/.  Notes about club hosting can be found at http://www.ukroleplayers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1144.

 

David

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Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 07:55:27 -0700
From: i...@balboa.me.uk
To: dragonso...@googlegroups.com
Subject: {Dragons on the Hill} Website Hacked

The website was recently hacked, and I had to restore it again. Probably lost about 2 weeks worth of changes. I am no longer prepared to support the website, as it is taking up too much of my time. If the site goes down again I will replace it with a static version of the site, which means no user IDs and no forum amongst other things. Unless someone is willing to take over my support role of course... Any volunteers?

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[Michael Hollis]

Thanks for the heads up Ian, and the thankless task of looking after it for so long. Thanks for the suggestion David, it's something we were already considering; however our setup wouldn't quite work with meetup out of the box. The last thing we'd want is an influx of players we can't accommodate! I'll speak to Owen and Johan about it. I already run another meetup group, so it won't cost anything, but we'd probably need to keep a static site for Google search visibility. Michael

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From: David Keys <davu...@yahoo.co.uk>;
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Subject: RE: {Dragons on the Hill} Website Hacked
Sent: Fri, Jun 28, 2013 6:15:56 PM

[Owen]

For my two cents I think the way forward will be:

We wont get any volunteers to manage the website sadly. So we change the website to a static low maintenance site sadly loosing some of the functionality there.

We open up a meet up group for the club, the purpose of the page will be to point of contact for us for new members ect the organization slash communications will take place through this Google group as they do now.

Once we have a Tuesday rep (hopefully Ben will take that bullet) we can use meet up and UK role-players to advertise for a new group or two to bump the numbers.

That sounds reasonable if there are any objections or better ideas please shout out.

Owen

[Gabe Chomic]

Makes sense to me.  I didn't suggest meetup myself, but as assistant organiser for a 2500+ person board gaming meet up group here in London, I can say it will probably meet our needs quite well.

You can set up a 'player's looking' forum on there, too.

Gabe

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[Ian Balboa]

I think that sounds like a good idea, Owen. I agree with Mike, we probably still need some sort of website, as a fixed point of contact we can control, and something to boost our presence in Google searches.

If someone else wants to sort out a meetup page (or whatever it is you do with it!) I am happy to create a link from our website to the meetup site.

Take a look at this, if you haven't already: http://dragonsonthehill.co.uk/dotH_Static/

This is my first draft at a static site. It has all the info of the old site, but doesn't use a database, or any complicated code, so there is much less to go wrong. The downside is we lose the forum, and we have no user IDs, so we have no handy list of emails for doing a mail out. However, before I shut the site down I will do a final mass email to let people know what is happening, and advise them to join the Google Group and/or the Facebook group.

Cheers,

Ian :)

[Nick Julius]

That works for me.  Thankyou for doing it.

Nick

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