New server and website

Written by Quintus on 2014-09-13.

We finally have a server and a website specifically for our fork.

After long discussions on IRC and the old SMC forums, we have finally decided to declare this project an official fork of the Secretmaryo Chronicles project. From this day on, we are no longer a simple continuation of that project, but rather a project of our own, with our own goals, and, hopefully, our own new name. This website currently does mention Secretchronicles as the name of the project, but as outlined on the start page, this is not final yet and subject to change, because we do not want to keep the “SMC” acronym. Please feel free to give your input to the discussion, either on ticket #92 or in IRC; note we already had a channel #secretchronicles on freenode.net for a while.

First Root Logo

First Root is sponsoring us. Thanks!

Note we are in the process of changing our infrastructure. We have been kindly granted a free virtual server by the German company First Root UG, to whom I express my explicit gratitude. Additionally, I have purchased the domain secretchronicles.org so that we can now unite all of our infrastructure on a single domain and server.

As a consequence, the websites on Secretchronicles that were previously scattered around my private quintilianus.eu domain will now be moved gradually over to the new secretchronicles.org domain. The sites hosted on my private server and even on my Raspberry Pi will be moved over to the new server. This process will take time, but I will continue to inform you on this blog. As of this writing, the following sites have already been moved:

  • The scripting forum from smc.quintilianus.eu has been moved to forum.secretchronicles.org.
  • The chatlogs have been moved from secretmaryo.quintilianus.eu to chatlogs.secretchronicles.org.
  • furbot, our helpful IRC bot, now runs on alexandria, which is the nickname of our new server.
  • A new website (this one) has been added as secretchronicles.org.

Please help us to give this fork the necessary momentum it needs to evolve and grow, so that the old SMC gains new life with new goals. Currently, we are shortly before the 2.0.0 release, with 2.0.0-beta3 being the current beta version. Test it, and give feedback.

Vale,
Quintus.