[unofficial weekender] T-2

[limburger 22680xp 1]

time to assassinate like a creed or something.

[sundancer 45008xp 2]

Silly me did a silly and nostalgic thing. Back in the days, late 1990s, early 2000s when I was just starting with #MiniatureWargaming one of the few reliable sites I would visit would be a newsgroup called rec.games.miniatures.warhammer. It is still around to not really active in any sense.

It had a well maintained FAQ and it’s own domain. So technically when usenet started to fade into obscurity that would have been a great thing to use for a forum, newsletter or whatever. Sadly it just went away.

The domain was never renewed.

UNTIL NOW!

https://www.rgmw.org

Yes, it’s just HTML and barely more than the FAQ currently but I want to restore it. XD

relearning HTML is really hard if you relied on WYSIWYG editors and CMS for 10+ years

[limburger 22680xp 1]

ye gawds … all that’s missing is a marquee and comic sans as a font 😉

Reminds me of this one : https://maddox.xmission.com/c.cgi?u=regular_site

Say what you will about ‘AI’, but you can bash out a pretty snazzy HTML page in seconds with that.
Not that HTML is difficult in any shape or form. It’s the CSS that can drive one crazy.
(and again … that’s where ‘AI’ can be a great tool).

[zoidpinhead 13095xp 1]

The domain was never renewed.

UNTIL NOW!

Loving the black background. Shouldn’t the links be in lime green like all the Geocities warhammerz sites back in the day 😀

Good luck with the rebuild.

[sundancer 45008xp 2]

Shouldn’t the links be in lime green like all the Geocities warhammerz sites back in the day

Nah. no colour shenanigans. Inverting background and font colour is the most. No CSS, no weird codes etc. Plain simple html. It will run on a potato. It will be enough work copying the texts from old out of archive.org

[limburger 22680xp 0]

‘work’ ?
I’ve had clankers refactor a horrible excel-sheet filled with macros into a super sexy app with minimal effort (plus it fixed bugs too).

Copy&pasting ye olde website(tm) to run on a potato is one of those things that just isn’t worth the effort of doing it yourself, unless you are a sucker for punishment.

Basic CSS isn’t that hard either.

I’d be surprised if it wasn’t something even local LLM could do.

[sundancer 45008xp 1]

No, just no. Unless I’m forced to use AI for work I’m not doing that. I’m painting my minis, I’m building my html pages.

[grantinvanman 10545xp 1]

[limburger 22680xp 1]

I for one welcome our robot overlords … (while I’ve got bills to pay).

[grantinvanman 10545xp 0]

@tgu3 SPAM:

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[limburger 22680xp 0]

Boba on his bike … that’s got to be good, right ?

[limburger 22680xp 1]

Brickwars in real life:

[grantinvanman 10545xp 0]

Cool; I used to have those moon crater plates. Loved Space Lego when it first came out in 1979.

[sundancer 45008xp 0]

Cool; I used to have those moon crater plates.

Still have mine. As with miniatures you never part ways with your Lego.

[pagan8th 15389xp 0]

I did. Long ago. Prices of lego kits ridiculous. Especially stuff like Star Wars. Saw a Chewbacca once. Silly money and mostly just brown bricks.

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