Subject: Interesting...
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Posted on: 2011-09-29 18:37:00 UTC
I assume that's because any before that would fall onto a page that contains non-existent threads, and therefore the page container has been deleted from the DB.
Or an anime? Or a published book series? It it was, I'd be the first to watch/read it. :D
Why couldn't we make a collection of short stories with a PPC theme? Avoid copyright issues at all costs, sell it at cost through whatever online thing publishes it -- why not?
hS
I'd be down for that if you needed extra voices. I'm afraid I wouldn't be much use for anything else.
1) Contact Jay and Acacia about it, since the PPC does belong to them, after all.
2) I don't think there's really any way to fully sell at cost; give a charity the remainder, perhaps to an organization like Building With Books?
Drop the PPC theme all together. We're a bunch of aspiring writers, right? We ought to be able to put together at least one volume of short stories worth reading. I know I've got at least three I'd donate to, let's call it Continuum - published through some internetty people, a volume of stories from the young (mostly) authors of the PPC. Who knows? It could be a real thing someday.
hS
Not 'on the Board'. Sorry - years of habit getting the better of me. It's like how I still sometimes say Suefic when I mean badfic.
hS
I mean, there's no point starting a thread on it if everyone will say "Nah". I can come up with at least one argument against it myself (ie, that it's a pointless exercise in vanity and we might as well just make a website). I happen to think it would be an /awesome/ exercise in vanity, and therefore okay, but... :P
hS
...Is how we tend to fall apart at actually doing things. We are excellent at volunteering, though.
... is that for most people, it comes down to "Write or find a story! Then edit it in response to concrit!". At least the first part, we can all do standing on Benjamin Franklin's head. Then it comes down to pretty much one person to put it all together.
hS
Animation might make it possible, if anyone's willing to draw.
I recall, ages ago, someone suggesting a theme song for a PPC soap opera - the Decemberists' "Odalisque" with the lyrics modified to "What do we do with ten dirty Sues?"
Only storyboard things, though. I don't have the time or talent for much else. Maybe come up with some fairly short skits?
"not to mention that our space here is finite, and eventually the topics past disappear forever."
You mean the oldest threads get deleted as new one gets posted? I didn't know that. How long back are they archived?
The farthest-back thread that can be found with the lowly "Next page" button is from June 18th 2008, so one day after the one Fish found.
http://disc.yourwebapps.com/discussion.cgi?disc=199610;article=172089;title=PPC%20Posting%20Board;pagemark=3125
I assume that's because any before that would fall onto a page that contains non-existent threads, and therefore the page container has been deleted from the DB.
Took a minute or two to find the oldest accessible thread with a script I have for similar purposes (old forum-dredging, long story).
This is the oldest thread you can read:
http://disc.yourwebapps.com/discussion.cgi?disc=199610;article=172061
From this it can be inferred that yourwebapps stores 44,640 threads, although whether this number is affected by spam-threads that have been nuked by the admins is not clear.
... I remember a year or so back, Kaitlyn pointed out to me that our wedding announcement (October 2008) was near the beginning of the archive. So is it possible that the store is no longer being emptied? After all, that thread you found is still readable as I write this -- although, of course, it pre-dates most of the spamfloods. But still - might YWA now be keeping everything?
hS
So it seems to be somewhere around 2008 right now. Seems awfully short, but is of course quite a long time on the internet.
I always pictured it as the room in Death's library, where you keep going, and the lighting gets dimmer, and slowly you find threads written in archaic tongues, arguing about topics like "Do Balrogs have wings?" and whether or not Fëanor was a tragic hero, or a villain in his own right, bound on animal skins and written in charcoal, and then you get farther on and find stone tablets, with incomprehensible hieroglyphs carved in weird triangles, which, when translated, would give you the ultimate origins of the Flowers or where Glitter really came from, but alas, their translations are lost forever to the sands of time.
Except, unlike in Death's library, infinity is a steep drop off a perfectly cornered edge, and it inches closer with every new volume written.
I love that idea. And it sounds like something the PPC would have, a huge library with a step drop into nothing in one end. Thanks for that awesome image!
Nesh can probably tell you more, but as I understand it, the Archives are a near-infinite library in HQ that has records of everything ever.