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Hontounia Einigung Stage Ein

As with many of the movings and shakings in the Holy Empire of Hontounia, this partcular event was triggered, yet again, by Sea Slugs! Overlord Kabitzin when he put out a call for new cannon fodder contributers.

Having been exhausted by a spate of hosting and other backend problems, I contemplated leaving all these duties behind by joining another team blog while Stripey would move to Wordpress.com or even back to Blogspot. But we quickly abandoned these notions; we did not want to consign four to five years (and hundreds) of entries and comments to the oblivion; but if we wanted to keep the legacy blogs and entries in place (and generally not contribute to the scourge of linkrot), we would still have to maintain the domain as well as keep the WP installations and plugins up to date. Which defeated the initial purpose.

Exporting the old entries (and setting up redirection on the old blogs) would go some way towards resolving the dilemma but there were not inconsiderable technical challenges of exporting to another team blog (assuming they would allow the infestation) and to Wordpress.com (2MB limit when importing into WP.com - solution here). While discussing this with Kabitzin, he suggested that we could gattai the blogs - this would cut down on maintenance - and he also kindly provided much of the how to advice.

Instead of having sou omou? absorbing Taihen desu or vice versa, I've decided to create a new WP installation under the /zan/ sub-directory of hontouni.com. It's a reference to our third blogging iteration as well as the alternate names (zankoku desu and chotto zannen) we considered earlier when we set up shop in our own domain but, otherwise, the new blog is known simply as Hontou Ni. There's still a lot to be done - getting all the usual functionalities in place (UTF8 argh) but most importantly doing the Search and Replace of intra-hontouni links as well as putting in redirection at the old blogs.

Back to the grindstone and see you at Stage Zwei.

Related posts:

1. Hontounia Einigung Stage Zwei
2. hontou ni TRANSFERRED
3. A blog by any other domain name