Went off on a tangent and abandoned Doom for a minute and threw up a new forum. Took a long time to set all the styles (very poor theme system neccessitated by-passing it and customizing styles, hundres of them). Doesn’t have the features of a php or perl board but shouldn’t be near the problems the old ones were, tehy are a full-time job just keeping online. Anyway, let’s see if anyone notices or comes back.

Redmeat was relatively painless, the only problem being every year the images are named according to the date they cam e out, meaning no 2 years are the same, so I had to correlate between the coding links and the actual files, but it only took a few hours and now comix is done. In the meantime, a friend has sent me more FFF stuff, but a lot of it is redundant (the fat freddie’s cat stuff mostly came from existing FFF comics) so I don’t know if I’ll mess iwth that. Cherries Jubilee 4 issues still has to be done, but that can wait.
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Good couple of weeks, the MP stuff is in the rear-view now, might revisit in the future but would have to be very driven to do so, there is much more there than ever was on the original shtml site, we had none of the albums, no Live at Hollywood Bowl. The Meaning of Life DVD had just come out at the time and we did the transcription together as a group with one poor intern trying to type everyone’s interpretations without pausing the movie (we just watched it numerous times and fixed each time.)

Anyway, that’s all done for now and on to the comics, which went rather quick, other than the scanning, which was brutal. Then the color correction, resizing, thumbnailing, watermarking and coding the pages. Rather than dribble them out I just put them all online at once.

FFF and Cherry are about done today, might get on to RedMeat, which is a risk as its a going concern and there don’t seem to be any other repositories complete online. As such, it wouldn’t be worthwhile to spend a great deal of time on them. We’ll see. Maybe limit searches and rely on people stumbling on them?