{"id":16208,"date":"2020-09-14T08:03:42","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T12:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/?p=16208"},"modified":"2020-09-14T09:10:38","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T13:10:38","slug":"so-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/?p=16208","title":{"rendered":"So&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/47fAeuomxsE\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>A few years back this site was hit by a vandalism hack which injected spam links into every published post up until that point.  While I managed to clean out the malicious scripts, my inelegant brute force solution did not undo the damage to the site&#8217;s archives. That left a decade&#8217;s worth of posts &#8212; covering a span when I still published daily &#8212; to be dealt with.  <\/p>\n<p>I did try to make a fair go at it, scrubbing twenty or so entries a day for a few months, but it was mind-numbing work made even more thankless by the growing realization that 90% of what I was fixing <strong>didn&#8217;t deserve to be saved.<\/strong> Posting every day (or even every other day) is going to result in a <em>lot<\/em> of shitposts which existed solely so I could feel like I met some internal quota.  Stretch that out over <em>three thousand posts<\/em> across ten years, and what you&#8217;re looking at is a small handful of gems engulfed in a continent-spanning morass of dead links, forgotten in-jokes, and outdated topical commentary.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe some grad student of the future might find value by drilling down into that shit for a thesis project, but otherwise it&#8217;s just a lot of pointless clutter.  The world has changed since a lot of that crap went up. I have changed in a number of subtle and no so subtle ways. <\/p>\n<p>AT 1.0 lasted two and a half years before I jumped to AT 2.0.  AT 2.0 has been chugging along for over a decade now.  There was no reason why I shouldn&#8217;t make another fresh start of things, apart from laziness and an obligation to somehow preserve the parts of the site which were worth saving.  <\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m doing.  It won&#8217;t be AT 3.0 as much as AT 2.5.  The template is staying because I like it, despite it being a relic of pre-mobile browsing.  The archives have been, well, <em>archived<\/em> while I clean and proof them for republishing.  The Ultimate Powers Jam stuff is a lock for restoration, as is the K-Tel series and Role Playing With the Changes.  Nobody&#8217;s Favorites and the console-specific videogame features might follow, though I can&#8217;t shake the feeling I could do a better job rebooting those from scratch.<\/p>\n<p>And then there will be the new content, which I&#8217;ve been putting off because I knew this soft relaunch was coming.  A big reason I didn&#8217;t want to get too fancy with it was because I wanted shit up and running in time for the Halloween Countdown.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time in a long time, I actually feel excited about this place again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years back this site was hit by a vandalism hack which injected spam links into every published post up until that point. While I managed to clean out the malicious scripts, my inelegant brute force solution did not undo the damage to the site&#8217;s archives. 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