The Fortress Of Solitude II

Where it all begins again.

An important announcement, ladies and gentlemen.

OK, I won't kid myself - gentlemen.

OK - guys.

This website that you've come to know and love will soon be dust and ashes. I will soon be closing down this site - forever. And opening a whole new one.

You see, it's no secret I've never been a fan of Blogspot's fairly rigid format. It's just not user-friendly enough for what I want The Fortress to be; a place where we can all air our views whenever we want, and just have random little threads dedicated to simple stuff like a cool link we've found. But over here a new thread is a weekly thing. That's just not good enough.

The final icing on the cake was learning how it's actually fairly difficult to join up and leave messages if you're not already writing a blog of your own. I think joining a site like this is an impulse thing - maybe someone saw one of my reviews and wanted to leave a (good or bad) message. So they come here and have to sign up? Fair enough, the urge is still there - it should only be a matter of filling out a user name. But it's not, and when a few stumbling blocks and red tape get in the way, that urge will quickly disolve.

Also, if this person DOES get through, where do they leave their comments? In a completely unrelated thread? Yeah, sure, they COULD scan down and try and find the original review or whatever and leave some snotty comment (it's happened a couple of times) but who's going to ever see it?

Therefore, I'm moving home to a far, far better site which is EVERYTHING I'm after. Easy to join, once a comment is made in a thread that thread shoots back up to the top - leaving potentially every thread still relevant. Anyone can post pictures at any time in the thread (unlike this one, where one pic at the top is all you've got) and.. well, put it this way - it's going to be great.

Here's some more news - the Loyal Dwellers that have stayed on this site have all contributed opinions and comments, and there's no way I'm going to let them all just rot in this dead site. So, I don't know how YET, but I'm going to find a way of basically re-creating EVERY thread and EVERY comment, replicating the site in all but address.

Sound good? Cool - but it's going to take a little while, so stick with me. I'm still going to post new stuff on here in the meantime (and port that over to the new site when the time comes) but I just thought I'd give you all the heads up.

Get your heart beating faster, people - the best is yet to come.