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[A Black Falcon]

Reviews are now finally a part of the forum itself. They are now easily seen, easily accessed, and easy to post to. You'll see them every time you come to the boards, so there's no excuse not to drop in and write one yourself every now and then! I will need someone to perform moderating duties for Reviews, and unlike other mods, this one actually will have to do work, as I don't want non-Review threads or posts in this forum, and they will be moved out or deleted. Yes, there are actually rules at TC, whod've thought?

... rules? Tendo City? but... we don't have rules! I thought that was the rule... :)

Anyway, it's funny to see us go back to this system... (given how 'reviews are in forums' was the system we had before you switched it to this one... :D). I thought it worked then, and I'm sure it'll work again now. I know the reason you changed -- it'd be nice to have a standardized review format and scoring system -- but I'd suggest solving that by having a sticky post in the review forum with guidelines for reviews. After all, just because you post them (and not use a template) doesn't mean that you can't have them follow a format...

First, the going. We all know how successful we've been trying to operate a dynamic, up-to-date webpage. It hasn't worked, and it's unlikely it ever will. We don't have the time, the manpower, or the interest to keep it going. When it was up, few read it, and most of the important stuff ended up on the forums anyway.

So, I am going to do away with it, somewhat.

It's true that there were some features of the page that people did like. Those I will keep, and restore from long ago death. Creativity will be brought back, with links to Comics, Shiggies, and other creative works made by Tendocitizens.

We've always had SOME kind of main page, though, even if no one cares about it... what will it be this time? "Click here to enter the forums"? :)

Really, I don't know... there should be something, but I'm not sure what. A real site, like we have now, gets ignored. Or it gets used a little (like the version we had a few years ago), but not nearly as much as it'd have to be to make it worth it. So that's out... just a simple homepage like Rumble City had, with 'current popular threads' and forum-info or subsection links? (reviews, creativity, archives, etc)? I don't know... that's a start though.

I have been promising to build these archvies forever. Now, thanks to a brilliant Dark Jaguar idea, all of these threads I've had for so long have finally been given the works. All of them have fixed images, working links, and everything. They are just as you will remember them. What remains is that these threads need to be indexed. This will take a while, as it will likely have to be done by hand.

Web.archive.org will be a great help for reconstructing a few of those thread-list pages. The other threadlist pages will have to be made from scratch, though... archive.org's better than nothing but not as good as you wish it would be, as usual.