The Nappy Cat Chronicles

Not effective immediately, I am shutting down Blogicology and moving ship to The Nappy Cat Chronicles. The Nappy Cat will be a stripped down web log with no arcade. The short reason tweaking vbulletin has consumed too much of my time.

The long reason is vbulletin costs too much money to maintain. $150 got me a license and a year of access to updates. I joined their network at a time when updates weren’t too forthcoming and, a year later, I decided against shelling out $50 to obtain another year’s access. However, vbulletin is now releasing updates at a pace of one per month or so. This means that my site is open to old and currently patched exploits.

Now, I know what you’re thinking. “It’s 50 bucks you miserly asshat.” If I did update, I would have to shell out another $50 to upgrade vbgallery. Additionally, the arcade has not been updated by its developer for well over a year now and would not function after any system upgrade.

Vbulletin is great forum software, but extending it to include those modifications that the original package should have included for its price is a pain in the ass. WordPress, on the other hand, is readily updatable, free, and flexible.

So, enjoy the arcade while it’s there and ogle some wallpaper. Blogicology will be closed, without any further warning, when The Nappy Cat Chronicles is ready.

Cheers,

Will

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