Subject: If we did want an alternative...
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Posted on: 2019-07-16 09:03:00 UTC
... the Canon Protection Initiative is a thing that goes back to J&A. But canonprotectioninitiative.* is even more cumbersome than plotprotectors.*, so perhaps not. :)
hS
So! As people have pointed out previously, dear old yourwebapps dot com is shutting down in October. The local nerds (by whom I mean, mostly Tomash) have built a replacement, and we're now looking at proper hosting - and have run into a topic that could use some discussion:
Proper hosting means we also will need a proper domain name! We get to choose (and register, but that's the easy part) an actual URL just for us.
As soon as we choose one.
Suggestions from the Discord include:
protecttheplot.*
plotprotectors.*
(in which the final '.*' represents some convenient TLD - .org, .net, .com, etc.)
If people have clever thoughts for domain names, I'd love to hear them! And then we're going to have to process our way to some sort of consensus on what we actually want.
"plotprotectors.[host].*" is the domain name I've always used for The Lost Tales. I think it's a great name! However, is there any potential concern about The Lost Tales being mistaken as the home page of the PPC?
... Alternatively, if that name wins the vote, do we WANT https://plotprotectors.neocities.org to function as a landing page for the PPC, much as Odd Lots and Miss Cam's site used to do? That is a thing we could hypothetically make happen with a few changes to what's presented how.
~Neshomeh
And I like "plotprotectors" being used for the new Board, to match the "Lost Tales" domain.
—doctorlit, supposing we could go with "continuumcrusaders.*" instead
...please don't. I can see why you suggested it, given both the general meaning and the alliteration, but I really, really don't want to be put in the position of having to think about the Crusaders every time I go to check the PPC Board or post there. I don't want to feel even remotely associated with them, either. I don't have anything against you for suggesting it, but I really don't like the idea of there frequently bring a veneer of discomfort over the experience of accessing the site of pretty much the only writing group I'm currently active in. Let's please not use this option.
~Z
I very much didn't mean that as an actual suggestion, hence why I stuck it in my signature. It's stupid and clunky-sounding.
Really, I'm sorry I caused discomfort!
—doctorlit, shutting up with stupid jokes
I wasn't completely sure whether it was serious or not--but even if you hadn't meant it seriously, someone else could have decided it was something they wanted to support, so I went with the instinct to say something. Apology absolutely accepted, I promise; sorry it took me a couple days to get to saying this. (Busyness happened, and exhaustion resulted.)
~Z
... the Canon Protection Initiative is a thing that goes back to J&A. But canonprotectioninitiative.* is even more cumbersome than plotprotectors.*, so perhaps not. :)
hS
... our biggest archive taking over the misssandman role of pseudo-homepage. :) As YpsiFang says, you're already hosting TOS, so you kind of are the home page.
hS
I have fond memories of Miss Cam's website (and it was really helpful for getting started on spin-offs, both originally and when I became a Boarder). I'd love us to officially have an equivalent.
~Z
plotprotectors is the closest thing we have to an associated domain name. So if we're going to put the board under something, it makes sense. Then again, there is the suggested confusion... I dunno.
By the way, regardless of out domain name, if we have our own domain, we can mirror Lost Tales on there. And probably should. But that's neither here nor there.
I think using that site as a landing page would work nicely, given it has links to other PPC stuff already. Doesn't hurt that it hosts the Original Series and a good number of spinoffs.
Plus, I'm just partial to plotprotectors, as domains go. :P
We are not the only organization whose acronym is PPC. I always end up finding content on Pay-Per-Click when searching with the keyword "PPC!"