The Curse Of The Red X -- How To Heal It! + Updates
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How to fix maj URLs -- Click the Edit button, and immediately submit post/comment/whatever. That's it.
I got B6 to set the word filter to change "maj.com" to "majhost.com" automatically. But you do need to actually edit and resubmit for it to take effect. (You don't need to type anything in your post yourself.)
Majhost?! -- Okay, I know I advise against criticisms when you don't know the story, but IMO if you present yourself as an image hosting site, you are making a promise that you will fight to keep the image URLs the same, basically forever. That's the whole point of such a site. Besides, maj was shorter, and length matters for a lot of URLs, such as Invision avatar URLs. Maybe there was a good reason for the change, but it seems frankly careless. (And I know there was warning, but I'm objecting to the move in the first place.)
Sigh. If only there was another hosting site as easy to use as maj/brickshelf... They really are the best, but sometimes wacky things happen o'er there that leave us all hanging.
S&T#4 Grace Period -- every post has been checked and now this topic has instructions for everybody who needs to fix something to be approved.
Also says which unapproved ones have my approval -- I just haven't actually updated the list to reflect them yet. Trying for that today/tommorrow.
RPG News -- Ojhilom and I have been working like mad these past weeks on the RPG. He's away this week, but I've just completed major chunks of the workload. My top priority to-do list before we can put up the skeletal version has shrunk considerably, and I intend to push through to completion SOON. As in, sometime this year.
But hopefully August. There's seriously that little left to do.Epics Contest -- So cool that I won!
That is actually my first win of any BZPower contest ever. And aside from my S&T#4 entry, only the second time I've ever even bothered to enter a contest. (Won second place in the art contest I entered years ago.) I guess I just take a Yoda-esque approach to contests -- "Win, or do not. There is no try." Maybe that's a bad thing, cuz I don't get the fun of producing cool stuff even though they don't win. 
But whatever -- it payed off this time. 
I seriously doubt I'll be one of the S&T winners, though. Some of the other entries are way better than mine IMO.
And that's enough for today -- gotta go be contest host again... Oh, don't forget to check out the 2nd Chances MOC blog contest winners in the below entry.
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