The MythGraveyard is officially dead.

All that’s left is this non-functioning ghost of a shell of a site.

So long, and thanks for all the fish.

This site will soon be abandoned.

I am still moving things to the new site and cataloging them, but this site will soon be a graveyard itself.

I’ll post a link here on the front-page to the new site, but eventually this site domain (sometime after mid 2012) will expire and I won’t renew it and then it will really be gone for good.

There’s good news and bad news.

The Bad News is that the Myth Graveyard is currently dead.

The Good News, is that like a good horror movie, the deadness of this site isn’t necessarily a permanent condition.

But right now there is no prognosis for whether this death will be permanent or not, or if not how long it will remain dead.

Sorry for any inconvenience.

-the management.

after working on and off on the redesign of mything.org and thinking about how to organize the data and categorize it in meaningful ways so it can be searched and organized for viewing logically for the past couple of years i finally figured it out.

my problem was with my data model. i was conflating activities and subjects and mediums of content which always left things muddled with weird hybrid categories to hold the exceptions or things that belonged in more than one category or not in any. and word press let me add custom fields, but even once fields were added at t he meta level, it was a pain to add data into fields for each individual post – and figuring out how to display different labels for fields depending on the ‘category’ of the content and display or not display fields based on categories was convoluted and complicated.

now i have seen the light. the latest wordpress version allows multiple taxonomies (ways of categorizing) to be created for all posts, so i can have multiple ‘meta-categories’ to describe every post. and plugins exist for searching the additional taxonomies, and modifying the taxonomies can be done through the admin interface. it is clean, it is shiny, it works, and i am back on the one true path to redesign.

ps. i also found a great wordpress add-on that converts a zip file of text/html files into posts, so i can easily load a lot of the dead myth sites i’ve saved over the years into mything.org for editing/categorizing.

once it’s all done, rolled out and working i might be handing the day-to-day maintenance of the site off to a friend (i have one candidate at the moment). i’ll still host the site and pay for the domain, but for the day to day stuff i just think i need a break from myth. it’s a good time to step back – friends who i used to play with have pretty much abandoned the game, the online community these days is mostly full of the kind of people i don’t enjoy spending time with, and there’s not much new in the Myth world to keep me interested. it’s been a good run, but it’s getting time for me to find something else to do with my time.

Although it was tempting to just let the registration lapse, I renewed the domain registration for mything.org so this site will be around for another year at least.

so few people left active in the community, and hardly doing anything other than playing, sometimes it seems like it’s about time this site too faded into memory like so many other myth sites.

but this is my collection of myth stuff, if i didn’t put it online i’d never be able to find anything, so for now it’s up for another year, probably many many more.