Homestar Runner Wiki Forum :: View topic - Homestarrunner.net "It's the Wiki's now"

I agree with StrongRad. I think that it is best the way it is.

I kinda like the idea of it linking to the wiki. Mainly because someone watches the "First Time Here" toon and is all "hey, that can't be real, can it?" Then, they type it into their browser, and BOOM!, they land in the Encyclopedia Homestarica! Sure, there is a certain joy in actually watching the toons, but I would have loved to know there was a wiki when I was a Homestar noob.. Man, that was a long time ago..

A thought: why not put a "regular" forum on there and use this one for the wiki only?

What would be the point of having two forums. Most things pretaining to the wiki go on the talk pages. Everything that isn't General discussion and WDP's are to talke about Homestar. Creating another forum would just make it wso a whole lot of people would go on without knowing about the main site.

Maybe someone could make a little short with Strong Bad going, "I can't believe you bothered to try this." and then buttons come up that can take you to the wiki, forum, fanstuff, and chat chanel.

No, not another forumn, he meant move this forum to that domain name. I like your nidea, though, that'd be cool. Who can do a good SB immitation, though?

I think homestarrunner.net should be some kind of php engine cache. So, if you view the wiki from homestarrunner.net, it will be a few minutes outdated but the pages will load faster.

ed 'lim' smilde wrote:

I think homestarrunner.net should be some kind of php engine cache. So, if you view the wiki from homestarrunner.net, it will be a few minutes outdated but the pages will load faster.

You mean the wiki? Then editting would have to be disabled for .net.

i think the wiki should switch from the .org name to the .net name, and pretty soon we could earn our way up to the .com name or even .gov!
lol

Maybe someone could make a little short with Strong Bad going, "I can't believe you bothered to try this." and then buttons come up that can take you to the wiki, forum, fanstuff, and chat chanel.

Who can do a good SB immitation, though?

Maybe someone could make a little short with Strong Bad going, "I can't believe you bothered to try this." and then buttons come up that can take you to the wiki, forum, fanstuff, and chat chanel.

Black Metal wrote:

Maybe someone could make a little short with Strong Bad going, "I can't believe you bothered to try this." and then buttons come up that can take you to the wiki, forum, fanstuff, and chat chanel.

That would be a great idea. I could do a SB voice, if I had a mic...and knew how to do flash....and if I knew other things. It would be cool if you had more than just Strong Bad saying anything. What is Homestar came in and said " See, I knew it was a website." or something less crappy than that.

Yeah, which people have been planning to delete for some time now. Plus, it's hardly user-friendly the way its laid out is it?

Choc-o-lardiac Arrest wrote:

i think the wiki should switch from the .org name to the .net name, and pretty soon we could earn our way up to the .com name or even .gov!
lol

Naw, the URL would be too long.

http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php/Main_Page

http://www.homestarrunner.net/index.php/Main_Page

Plus I've kind of grown accustomed to the hrwiki.org domain, but you never know. And setting up a forum there would probably be a bit much.

what do you mean? we could find a free forum service and host it through that website. or we could just make it into a Hrwiki Secret Page, or something.

damik wrote:

Yeah, which people have been planning to delete for some time now. Plus, it's hardly user-friendly the way its laid out is it?

What, the fanstuff wiki?

i think the wiki should switch from the .org name to the .net name, and prety soon we could earn our way up to the .com name or even .gov!
lol

I don't know if you realized this or not, but we are a .org for a reason. I am sure we could have gotten hrwiki.com (it may still be out there for all I know). However, we wanted .org to show that we had absolutely no intentions of stepping on tbc's feet.

.com implies that we are a company (and potentially taking their business). Since we make no money off the wiki, except that which goes back into it immediately, we felt that .org was more appropriate.

Author:	Black Metal [ Sat Oct 01, 2005 6:42 pm ]
Post subject:	Homestarrunner.net "It's the Wiki's now"
This thread is to discuss ideas for what we should with the new hr.net domain. I think it should just serve as a redirect to the forum since that's what the site was originally for. I'm the rest of you can think up something more creative, though.

Author:	Ju Ju Master [ Sat Oct 01, 2005 7:01 pm ]
Post subject:
I was thinkign of making a thread for this, but anyways, maybe it should have some crazy flash cartoon that says "It's Dot Com!" a lot.

Author:	StrongRad [ Sat Oct 01, 2005 7:08 pm ]
Post subject:
I kinda like the idea of it linking to the wiki. Mainly because someone watches the "First Time Here" toon and is all "hey, that can't be real, can it?" Then, they type it into their browser, and BOOM!, they land in the Encyclopedia Homestarica! Sure, there is a certain joy in actually watching the toons, but I would have loved to know there was a wiki when I was a Homestar noob.. Man, that was a long time ago..

Author:	iKipapa [ Sat Oct 01, 2005 7:12 pm ]
Post subject:
I agree with StrongRad. I think that it is best the way it is.

Author:	StrongRad [ Sat Oct 01, 2005 7:13 pm ]
Post subject:
iKipapa wrote: I agree with StrongRad. I think that it is best the way it is. I don't actually think it's best to leave it as a redirect, it's just that, out of all of the ideas I have right now, that one is the best choice.

Homestar Runner Wiki Forum http://forum.hrwiki.org/

Homestarrunner.net "It's the Wiki's now" http://forum.hrwiki.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=5160	Page 1 of 11

Author:	Ju Ju Master [ Sat Oct 01, 2005 7:37 pm ]
Post subject:
StrongRad wrote: I kinda like the idea of it linking to the wiki. Mainly because someone watches the "First Time Here" toon and is all "hey, that can't be real, can it?" Then, they type it into their browser, and BOOM!, they land in the Encyclopedia Homestarica! Sure, there is a certain joy in actually watching the toons, but I would have loved to know there was a wiki when I was a Homestar noob.. Man, that was a long time ago.. Maybe it could redirect to the wiki after the toon that I'm thinking about, but sadly, I don't know anyone who can make it.

Author:	computerdude33 [ Sat Oct 01, 2005 8:02 pm ]
Post subject:
A thought: why not put a "regular" forum on there and use this one for the wiki only?

Author:	Ju Ju Master [ Sat Oct 01, 2005 8:14 pm ]
Post subject:
computerdude33 wrote: A thought: why not put a "regular" forum on there and use this one for the wiki only? I dunno, this is a wiki forum, it's not just a Homestar Runner Fan Forum.

Author:	Black Metal [ Sat Oct 01, 2005 8:57 pm ]
Post subject:
What would be the point of having two forums. Most things pretaining to the wiki go on the talk pages. Everything that isn't General discussion and WDP's are to talke about Homestar. Creating another forum would just make it wso a whole lot of people would go on without knowing about the main site. Maybe someone could make a little short with Strong Bad going, "I can't believe you bothered to try this." and then buttons come up that can take you to the wiki, forum, fanstuff, and chat chanel.

Author:	Ju Ju Master [ Sat Oct 01, 2005 8:59 pm ]
Post subject:
Black Metal wrote: What would be the point of having two forums. Most things pretaining to the wiki go on the talk pages. Everything that isn't General discussion and WDP's are to talke about Homestar. Creating another forum would just make it wso a whole lot of people would go on without knowing about the main site. Maybe someone could make a little short with Strong Bad going, "I can't believe you bothered to try this." and then buttons come up that can take you to the wiki, forum, fanstuff, and chat chanel. No, not another forumn, he meant move this forum to that domain name. I like your nidea, though, that'd be cool. Who can do a good SB immitation, though?

Author:	ramrod [ Sat Oct 01, 2005 10:26 pm ]
Post subject:
Ju Ju Master wrote: No, not another forumn, he meant move this forum to that domain name. I like your nidea, though, that'd be cool. Who can do a good SB immitation, though? Well, ths forum now is a sub domain of thw wiki. I'm not sure how exactly it will work of you decide to move this to a new, seperate domain

Author:	ed 'lim' smilde [ Sat Oct 01, 2005 10:59 pm ]
Post subject:
I think homestarrunner.net should be some kind of php engine cache. So, if you view the wiki from homestarrunner.net, it will be a few minutes outdated but the pages will load faster.

Author:	Ju Ju Master [ Sat Oct 01, 2005 11:10 pm ]
Post subject:
ed 'lim' smilde wrote: I think homestarrunner.net should be some kind of php engine cache. So, if you view the wiki from homestarrunner.net, it will be a few minutes outdated but the pages will load faster. You mean the wiki? Then editting would have to be disabled for .net.

Author:	Choc-o-Lardiac Arrest [ Sun Oct 02, 2005 1:51 am ]
Post subject:
i think the wiki should switch from the .org name to the .net name, and prety soon we could earn our way up to the .com name or even .gov! lol

Author:	Dark Grapefruit [ Mon Oct 03, 2005 12:27 am ]
Post subject:
No matter what we do, we're going to get people who assume we're run by TBC just because of the dot net name.

Page 1 of 11	All times are UTC
Powered by phpBB © 2000, 2002, 2005, 2007 phpBB Group http://www.phpbb.com/

Author:	porplemontage [ Sun Oct 02, 2005 1:58 am ]
Post subject:
Choc-o-lardiac Arrest wrote: i think the wiki should switch from the .org name to the .net name, and pretty soon we could earn our way up to the .com name or even .gov! lol Naw, the URL would be too long. http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php/Main_Page http://www.homestarrunner.net/index.php/Main_Page Plus I've kind of grown accustomed to the hrwiki.org domain, but you never know. And setting up a forum there would probably be a bit much.

Author:	Super Sam [ Sun Oct 02, 2005 1:29 pm ]
Post subject:
Ju Ju Master wrote: Maybe someone could make a little short with Strong Bad going, "I can't believe you bothered to try this." and then buttons come up that can take you to the wiki, forum, fanstuff, and chat chanel. That sounds like a good idea. I could help out with that. Ask anybody at the fanstuff. Ju Ju Master wrote: Who can do a good SB immitation, though? I can do a prooty good Strong Bad imitation. Ask anybody at the fanstuff.

Author:	ramrod [ Sun Oct 02, 2005 2:33 pm ]
Post subject:
Black Metal wrote: Maybe someone could make a little short with Strong Bad going, "I can't believe you bothered to try this." and then buttons come up that can take you to the wiki, forum, fanstuff, and chat chanel. That would be a great idea. I could do a SB voice, if I had a mic...and knew how to do flash....and if I knew other things. It would be cool if you had more than just Strong Bad saying anything. What is Homestar came in and said " See, I knew it was a website." or something less crappy than that.

Author:	porplemontage [ Sun Oct 02, 2005 2:35 pm ]
Post subject:
ramrod wrote: Black Metal wrote: Maybe someone could make a little short with Strong Bad going, "I can't believe you bothered to try this." and then buttons come up that can take you to the wiki, forum, fanstuff, and chat chanel. That would be a great idea. I could do a SB voice, if I had a mic...and knew how to do flash....and if I knew other things. It would be cool if you had more than just Strong Bad saying anything. What is Homestar came in and said " See, I knew it was a website." or something less crappy than that. But come on, we all know that it would come out crappy and unusable. This is hr.net we're talking about. We should probably just make a pretty page linking to fan sites and h*r updates and stuff.

Author:	damik [ Sun Oct 02, 2005 7:22 pm ]
Post subject:
Could make into a more traditional fansite, with fan-made downloads and stuff. Just make it tie in with HRwiki.

Author:	Black Metal [ Sun Oct 02, 2005 7:24 pm ]
Post subject:
We already have the fanstuff wiki for that.

Author:	damik [ Sun Oct 02, 2005 7:46 pm ]
Post subject:
Yeah, which people have been planning to delete for some time now. Plus, it's hardly user-friendly the way its laid out is it?

Author:	Joshua [ Sun Oct 02, 2005 8:34 pm ]
Post subject:
damik wrote: Yeah, which people have been planning to delete for some time now. Plus, it's hardly user-friendly the way its laid out is it? What, the fanstuff wiki?

Author:	ed 'lim' smilde [ Mon Oct 03, 2005 12:28 am ]
Post subject:
Choc-o-lardiac Arrest wrote: what do you mean? we could find a free forum service and host it through that website. or we could just make it into a Hrwiki Secret Page, or something. The point is, there's no need for two seperate forums.

Author:	Entropy [ Mon Oct 03, 2005 12:32 am ]
Post subject:
Maybe we could give it to TBC, or someone could email them asking for the flash intro someone mentioned.

Author:	Acekirby [ Mon Oct 03, 2005 1:35 am ]
Post subject:
Joshua wrote: damik wrote: Yeah, which people have been planning to delete for some time now. Plus, it's hardly user-friendly the way its laid out is it? What, the fanstuff wiki? I highly doubt anyone's been planning to delete the Fanstuff Wiki. I actually don't know what to do with the domain name. It's nice to have, but I think what we do now (lead it to the wiki) is a good idea. But perhaps we should create a seperate "Welcome" page to link .net to, since we can't leave the disclaimer on the main page forever.

Author:	Stu [ Mon Oct 03, 2005 1:43 am ]
Post subject:
Choc-o-lardiac Arrest wrote: i think the wiki should switch from the .org name to the .net name, and prety soon we could earn our way up to the .com name or even .gov! lol I don't know if you realized this or not, but we are a .org for a reason. I am sure we could have gotten hrwiki.com (it may still be out there for all I know). However, we wanted .org to show that we had absolutely no intentions of stepping on tbc's feet. .com implies that we are a company (and potentially taking their business). Since we make no money off the wiki, except that which goes back into it immediately, we felt that .org was more appropriate.

Author:	Lunar Jesty [ Mon Oct 03, 2005 1:50 am ]
Post subject:
Stu wrote: I don't know if you realized this or not, but we are a .org for a reason. I am sure we could have gotten hrwiki.com (it may still be out there for all I know). However, we wanted .org to show that we had absolutely no intentions of stepping on tbc's feet. .com implies that we are a company (and potentially taking their business). Since we make no money off the wiki, except that which goes back into it immediately, we felt that .org was more appropriate. I seem to remember a poll with that reason never given. All we had were the admins hinting to pick .org. Of cource, it was pretty much just the admins back then.