All Good Things

[Acebot44]

I can give the monies

[Jason1]

I think we should keep it .net!

[Ginkasa]

I think the best option is to let GameTavern die and we can separate by having to choose between two, different gaming forums. One could be called "GamePub" and the other would be named after the 3DS for some reason.

[BreakABone]

Originally Posted by Ginkasa

I think the best option is to let GameTavern die and we can separate by having to choose between two, different gaming forums. One could be called "GamePub" and the other would be named after the 3DS for some reason.

I see what you did there. -_-

[Neo]

After many tense hours of negotiation, my people have finally reached a deal with Vampyr's people. It was touch and go for a while, but cooler heads prevailed and a compromise was finally reached.

On February 14th, 2012, the 11th anniversary of GameTavern, I will transfer ownership of the site to Vampyr.

We really dodged a bullet this time. I'm know Vampyr is the one who is perfect for the job. Vampyr has all the right moves and even knows kung fu. This site still needs a lot of work.

Don't worry about the financial situation; money's not on this Vampyr's mind. Instead the only currency......is blood. YEAAAAAAAHHHH!!

At this Tavern, all the drinks.......are colored red. YEAAAAAAAHHHH!!

There's no need to study astronomy. If you want to see stars, just look......under your name. YEAAAAAAAHHHH!!

Not every post can be seen. There are some messages that will always be........private. YEAAAAAAAHHHH!!

Jerry Sandusky may have had all the right moves, but on this play.......I'm calling a penalty. YEAAAAAAAHHHH!!

[Vampyr]

My first official move as CEO of GameTavern is to outlaw David Caruso jokes.

As Neo stated, I will be taking the helm of GT in a quest to lead it down the path of greatness. Neo will be taking the blue pill.

I actually already have a server of my own that I pay for each month ($20), that I use for hosting my personal projects and just playing around with. I have a 200GB monthly limit, which is way above the 8GB that Neo says we use. My other projects don't generate anything close to 1GB (yet). 200GB seems low compared to the 30,000GB that Neo mentioned we currently have, but my server is a VPS (virtual private server), as opposed to a shared host. We may actually see some speed increases (not that GT is slow anyway).

I also have 200GB of space available, and GT is currently just over .5GB, so no worries there. I have a registrar that I currently use for my other domain names, so I'll just be transferring GameTavern.net to there. That will be about $15 a year.

That being said, I'm going to look into upgrading our version of vbulletin. I would really like to have some of the newer features. It is pretty expensive, so we'll see about doing a round of donations. I won't clutter the forums with advertisements, but we might look into having a small one on the front page or something.

Some people may be wondering about my qualifications to run a website, but rest easy knowing that it's actually my real life job to build and maintain web applications.

As for the future of GameTavern, I have some plans. We won't be going down the route of video game reviews & news. That's been done a thousand times before, and there are bigger sites than us out there that do it better than we ever could. Instead we will focus on finding our own niche and continue doing what we already do best: having a tight knit community.

And of course, a special thanks to Neo for giving us vagabonds a place to hang out all these years. As we can now see, it wasn't exactly cheap for him.

[Neo]

Now that I'm in my lame duck phase, I feel like I should be handing out pardons.

Anyone feel like they need absolution for something?

[Neo]

vBulletin 4 does look pretty bad ass. It has an integrated article publishing system that would make it easy to post news or whatever. It also allows users to setup and maintain their own blogs. Is that something you guys would be interested in?

[KillerGremlin]

Although I have contributed nothing meaningful to this empire, I would be open to helping brainstorm new directions....

[Typhoid]

Originally Posted by Neo

Is that something you guys would be interested in?

I would definitely use that as my outlet for my time-wasting-nonsensical-topical-ranting rather than my normal posts.

I'm sure other people would use it for much more useful things than me, however.
That also might be a good way to draw in new members. Give them a place to maybe show things off, artwork, maybe videos of how they did in a certain video game (or something).

[KillerGremlin]

I would have suggested turning GT into the forum for NOTR except that it sounds like Vampyr has plans for the site.

[Teuthida]

Thank you Neo for keeping the lights on all these years.

GT's been a great way for me to keep track of what movies I've watched and music currently listening to. And I guess you folks are tolerable enough.

It could become the forum for NOTR. It does link here...

[Bond]

Someone should let Vampyr into the staff forum. It would be great to see a new thread considering the last one is from July of last year.

[Vampyr]

I should really get a more professional avatar.

Originally Posted by typhoid

So, will there be sweeping changes? 100% overhaul, new members, new forum staff, new look, new colours?

First things first I'm going to have to do an audit of vBulletin 4 and see what all it's really capable of. It seems to be like a full blown CMS for managing content on a website, which is cool. Hopefully it's easy for me to leverage my own programming skills to take those turn-key solutions and make them something truly unique for our site.

Blogs are a great idea. Like I said - I really want to focus on the community aspect of GameTavern, and build new features around that. Just having blogs wouldn't be enough - people would never go read them. We have to find a way to integrate those blogs into the forefront of GT and make them visible. I think I know how to do that.

Originally Posted by KillerGremlin

I would have suggested turning GT into the forum for NOTR except that it sounds like Vampyr has plans for the site.

NOTR will always be our sister site, but I think gametavern deserves to be something completely game oriented. It won't try to compete with Nerds on the Rocks, though.

Originally Posted by Bond

Someone should let Vampyr into the staff forum. It would be great to see a new thread considering the last one is from July of last year.

I'm in your forum, reading your really old threads.

[Neo]

Originally Posted by Vampyr

I'm in your forum, reading your really old threads.

Oh crap, better delete that "Vampyr is a nut licker" thread. Sorry!

And what the hell is NOTR? Is this something I should have been aware of?

Weird.