The bomb. Somebody set us up the.

By: Derek Yu

On: May 4th, 2010

Hey, guys! It’s been a tumultuous couple of weeks for the TIGSource front page. Basically, Jeff Lindsay and Timothy Fitz upgraded us to the latest version of Typo, it couldn’t handle our load, and so the site was slow at best, unresponsive at worst. Typo’s never been that good to us, though, so I figured this was as good a time as any to switch to WordPress. That switch is now finished!

Many thanks and kow tows to Matthew Wegner (Blurst), who shouldered the Atlas-like burden of migrating the site to WordPress and converting all of our comments to Disqus. We have 1,800 posts and 40,000 comments and they all made it over unscathed (well, minus maybe a few comments on the tail end). Matthew is also hosting the site now. He’s done a great job hosting TIGForums the past couple of years, so I feel pretty comfortable putting the front page in his strong-but-tender arms as well.

Also, thanks to Jeff and Tim, who have faithfully hosted the site and kept it running all these years. Jeff saved the site back in the day when he offered to host. These guys both co-created TIGdb with me, too.

Anyway, thanks for being patient. We’re a bit behind and the site still looks kinda wonky, but hey, at least we’re stable! More better things to come.

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AndySchatz

Congrats and YAY!
MatthewFBS

The Typo pages/features are still offline, but should make it over tonight. If you guys notice any issues with anything please give a shout!
magenta

Site looks good. Please edit robots.txt, so I can be informed again by a fellow and too-well-behaving bot, when updates arrive…
alastair_jack

yay!
rinkuhero

site loads much faster now. i still miss the 'recent comments' feature on the sidebar, though. but i assume that'll be back eventually.
http://entardev.wordpress.com Entar

TIGdb doesn't work for me, just redirects me back to the TIGSource front page… just so you know.
Jellybit

Thank you very much Matthew/mandarin! You're a true champion of courage.
Guest

The logo on top looks wierd. Could you center the joystick logo and text on it? Or at least make it shorter?
Rockidr4

Oooooh!!! Shiny comments. I'm stealing them and putting them in my squirrel nest.
Megazell

Looks good but the DB seems to bring you right back to this page.
godsavant

I WANT THE OLD FACEBOOK BACK.

Kidding aside, I do wish that we just use our forum accounts for comments rather than this DisQus business, but whatev.
Guest

What happened to the list of recent comments?

Like an idiot I've been staring at the sidebar to see if anyone has replied to a certain comment only to see that it's not there anymore.

Please fix this…. :(
zyndor

Congrats and kudos and thanks!

The speed increase is amazing, and the site looks better too.

/Forum account integration is seconded./
mjau

Thirding forum account integration. My nick is already taken on disqus. If that person ever comes to post here, things would just get confusing. I suspect others are in the same boat.
jphwacheski

Looks good,. . the link in DevRoll to Wolfire Blog [ http://blog.wolfire.com ] is gone? is that an oversight, or did they wrong you in some way?!?
MatthewFBS

Oversight–I had to type those in manually. Will fix!
MatthewFBS

They'll be back–some of the sidebar widgets (hot forum threads, recent comments, etc) need to be redone.
Optrirominiluikus

Yay!
Only problem I'm having is that the Helvetica seems a little off on the posts. In the comments it looks fine. The fault probably lies on my end (Windows user) but still…
namuol

excellent! i'm a fan of disqus, but sadly only a few of the blogs i comment on regularly support it. now i can make an ass of myself here without being anonymous! :D
Hideous

Fuck yeah wordpress.<3

Also no more anonymous trolls? :D Atleast not any impostors.
haowan

This is nice new comments stuff
haowan

How does it know my icon? maybe i registered before or some shit
Figger

Well, where is the pie? Anyone sane enough knows pie is essential to indie games. :-) And why is the logo wider than the grey areas?
ortoslon

Disqus uses your Gravatar by default
mjau

Except for when someone else already registered your nick on disqus, of course. Now we'll have accidental, registered impostors in stead. Yay!

Seriously though, it'd been nice to be able to have the same nick on both the forum and the front page without being flagged as a guest.
mjau

It's your gravatar icon.
MatthewFBS

Recent comments are back now, along with a list of posts with active comment threads…
MatthewFBS

We probably won't be able to add forum login easily. DISQUS does support OpenID logins, and in theory we could rig that up to SMF with some modding, but I don't think it's the best use of my time on the site…
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