Legacy web sites…
So a renewal notice from GoDaddy for our CodeFuries.com domain has brought up an interesting conundrum: when should you take a web site down? Chris, Brian, MattC, MattH and I set up the site to facilitate joint development and distribution of some software we had a common interest in. In the intervening years, our interests (and geophysical proximity) have migrated, and things are pretty dormant at CodeFuries now. The software is still useful, and still available, but development is basically halted because alternate solutions have become available that simply work better. Most of us are using Wiki code now for common/shared authoring environments, so is it time to pull the plug?
On the one hand, the hosting is free, the domain costs a whopping $9 to renew… it many ways that is the easiest thing to do (aside from just letting the domain expire). On the other hand, why leave clutter lying around. I’m interested in hearing your input!
November 16th, 2005 at 2:57 pm
In General: I have no idea. No good answers. Heck, the last company I worked for had reserved no less than a dozen (that’s 12) “typo domains” (only partly because they wanted mistypers; mostly, it was because there was an interaction between “what should we call our product?” and “what domains are available?” and they just went nuts registering anything that looked remotely close, before they finalized the product’s name.)
How long do you keep something like that around? A year maybe? Try four.
On Codefuries, specifically GEAS: I like the idea, but the implementation never worked for me. Too many odd UI elements. And I’m a hybrid developer/designer, so I actually (at least, in theory) understand the more technical parts.
From lurking on various RPG message boards, I think there is a demand for this kind of service, but I don’t know if there’s an audience for GEAS, specifically.
November 17th, 2005 at 9:59 am
Yeah, Wiki has superceded GEAS for just about everyone who was originally involved in development. Really, if I had the time to write a script to migrate the data from GEAS to a Wiki, I’d be behind just shutting it down. But we have Imagiware Knowledge Base info in there, which I refer to frequently. And the sad truth is that its cheaper to renew the domain than either migrating from GEAS or moving the GEAS to another domain.
So I’ve renewed.
–T
November 18th, 2005 at 11:50 pm
Not just Wiki, even, but message boards, multi-author blogs, Backpack, Writeboard, ad nauseum. There are gajillions of new & interesting ways to share information with a small-to-large group of people on the ‘net these days.
December 29th, 2007 at 5:41 pm
AVG free