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It is with a heavy heart that I announce the demise of The Guardian of Forever. It is fitting that I close this site this year, the 10th anniversary. It has been a long, fruitful and fun journey!
I want to thank you all for all your cooperation over the years. A very special thanks goes to all of you who contributed so much by sending me so many screencaps!
But, in the end, there doesn�t seem to be any place on the net anymore for pure fan-sites. It takes too much work for one man. And there is so little response from visitors...
Live long and prosper!
-------------------- "The Starships of the Federation are the physical, tangible manifestations of Humanity´s stubborn insistence that life does indeed mean something." Spock to Leonard McCoy in "Final Frontier"
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ACK! Yours is one of the best sites for concept art and obscure ships! Is the site going to close completely, or are you just going to stop updating it?
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I�m sorry B.J. but it�s closing completely I�m afraid.
I�ll still collect pics, and actually I�ve been replacing old caps with dvd ones on my own database. I actually have all voyager and enterprise as well as TOS, TAS, and the movies on dvd. I�m currently done with everything except the last three movies.
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But why? Can't you store the pics somewhere else(like in a zip)? I'd host it. Shit, now I don't know where to go for Starship pics.
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Starship database: completed; History of Starfleet: done; website: probably never
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I agree. If you'd ve willing to hand over the content to someone like Bernd or the like, then it would still at least be preserved somewhat.
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Definitely Bernd. His site could use some more starship pics. Especially when it comes to concept art. There's also Trek Core which hosts images from another defunct site: Star Trek in Sound and Vision. There's also Memory Alpha.
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My site remains active - for now. Although I have little time or inclination to do regular updates and keep increasing content, that may change one day. The domain registration and hosting doesn't cost all that much, and it means at least mine and my wife's email addresses remain the same as they've been for several years now. I continue to collect images, although not as obsessively as I once did - whereas, once upon a time, it was virtually impossible to get screencaps, now thanks to places like TrekCore (and it's predecessor, whatever it was called - and it claims STinSV as an ancestor as well? I didn't know that) you can find just about anything you need.
All this may change next year as anticipation grows about the new film. We'll see. It's just occurred to me, I always keep all the amassed meterial to do at least one page on my memory stick, I wonder what I have at the moment. . ? Oh, the TOS Type-II, which I've already done. Arses.
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I can appreciate that you all wish to see my pictures remain in a public domain, and possibly I might give them to Bernd. We've cooperated before. However, my collection of pics is at least 500 megs large...
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Well at least try giving away the concept art pics as those are hard to find. And of course the Federation starships are a priority.
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Like everyone else I'm very sad to hear you're shutting the site down, it's pretty much the one stop shop for any references on starships.
I'm not really sure what you mean about a lack of response from visitors. I mean, there's only so much people can say about starship images and to my knowledge you don't have a guestbook page, so they'd have to email you if they wanted to comment or ask questions. You must get a lot of hits, though. And that's the clearest sign that people appreciate what you're doing.
Anyway, when do you expect the site to go down permanently? There are certainly a lot of images I'd like to save to my hard drive beforehand.
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Well, I think anyone who has a website knows how much work goes into it. And with a picture-heavy site as my own it has been a lot of work, I used to update every few days a while ago. Just capping from videos a few years ago was a pain in the ass, and now, buying the dvd:s and capping and posting again and again...Browsing the net looking for more and better pics and asking permission to use them...Especially when "Enterprise" was on, it�s all a heavy workload.
Then some punk takes my pics and posts them on their own page without asking or even worse, hot-links them! This has happened more times than I care to remember. I�ve chased internet-providers on more than one occasion, I can tell you!
Add to all this, that yes, I do get a lot of hits, which has always been gratifying and to tell you the truth, that�s been all that�s kept me going. Knowing that fans come and check it out. But they generally browse through and don�t email me with comments. And a guestbook, well I tried that a few years ago, and spamming and a lot of unnecessary off-topic comments led me to close it down. So, you have no way of knowing if they liked their browsing or if they hated it. You need positive reinforcement sometime, you know?
Finally, I�m sad to say, my site is already down.
-------------------- "The Starships of the Federation are the physical, tangible manifestations of Humanity´s stubborn insistence that life does indeed mean something." Spock to Leonard McCoy in "Final Frontier"
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Self Impossed Exile (This Space for rent)
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THIS ISN'T QUITE RELATED BUT Does anyone know why DSC (www.dropshipcommand.com) is placeheld at the moment?
Hopefully it's a glitch and not an actual end to the site...
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I can say I know the feeling. My website has been up for 9 years this November. I put a lot of work and time into it, granted I don't really get around to actively update it like I use to.
I agree with your statement about hits (although my hitcounter appears down)... I do have a guest book though... that sees like one signature every couple of months. So if someone finds starship information they're looking for then I feel I've done my job.
Anyway, as a fellow Trek site man, I hate to see another good site down.
-------------------- I'm slightly annoyed at Hobbes' rather rude decision to be much more attractive than me though. That's just rude. - PsyLiam, Oct 27, 2005.
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Thanks Hobbes, I�ve always enjoyed visiting your site. See, now I tell you...
Well, in the end perhaps we are all more alike..
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