Category Archives: Website Meta Article

Just as a quick heads up, I did a little housecleaning of usernames; the spambots have been starting to get past the bot detection software. Fortunately, most of the accounts I purged were obviously bots (seeing their e-mail addresses were in sequential order). If I deleted your account by accident, please e-mail me and I’ll rectify the situation (while the bots oddly don’t post on my site, I did preserve any theoretical messages to the Anonymous account set up just for this reason).

Thanks to the hard work of a friend of mine, Phase 1 of the Archive Recovery Project is complete. All of the old webcomic reviews (and some other content) have been restored to the system. While the archives have been restored, image files for those reviews are not yet available (though they have been coded in); Phase 2 will involve renaming the older images to the system I started using five or so years back. Phase 3 will involve detecting and repairing broken or incorrect links. Best of all, this occurred just in time to ring in the New Year. Fortuitous timing, that; I owe my friend big for her hard work on the Archives. (She will be hopefully continuing her work with the image files next; link repair will likely be something I need to handle myself. Please note, if you find a broken link in my site, e-mail me at tangentsreviews at gmail dot com and I hopefully can track down the errors.)

I thought I’d give a heads up concerning the Archive Recovery – around 20 percent of the missing reviews are now up, with all of June 2005 restored along with part of July. In addition, four Meta-reviews posted originally in 2005 have also been restored, along with revised scores using the new scoring metrics I devised two years ago:

College Roomies from Hell
Schlock Mercenary
Narbonic
Questionable Content

While I’ve not been checking links or images with Archive recovery, I did take extra effort with the Meta-reviews, seeing the extra work that went into the reviews in the first place. The only exception is the <i>Narbonic</i> review, where I removed links due to the site moving from Modern Tales and making it near-impossible to determine what most of the links were for. I’ll keep readers updated as to additional uploaded Meta-Reviews in the future.

I thought I’d let you all know that after creating my Webcomic Review List and realizing just how many comics I’d reviewed in that time for the first and last time, I’m fast-tracking the upload of reviews into the archives. Unfortunately, these reviews will NOT be edited. I will not be checking links and I will not be uploading images (or altering their file names to fit my new standardization for image names), which means they will be missing images and likely have broken links.

At this point I realize the important thing is to just upload these reviews. After they’re uploaded I can edit them at a later time (or recruit people I can trust to do this editing should any of my friends and associates really want to waste hours of their day doing that). And on the plus side, once all of these reviews are uploaded then I’ll be more likely to actually start working on editing broken links and the like. I will keep you all informed as to how this progresses. Let’s keep our fingers crossed.