{"id":640,"date":"2012-08-24T12:58:56","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T12:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/?p=640"},"modified":"2021-10-05T05:42:40","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T09:42:40","slug":"new-blog-location","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/2012\/08\/new-blog-location\/","title":{"rendered":"New Blog Location"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, the Rocketship Games site moved to a new host, and as part of both that and a general reorganization, my blog&#8217;s URL has moved to this new location \u00a0that you&#8217;re reading right now (<a href=\"http:\/\/rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\">http:\/\/rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>There are a couple closely related things motivating all this; in no order:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m convinced the previous host had lost a big chunk of my MySQL database containing the blog, seemingly rolling it back to an old version in a backup restore or something like that.<\/li>\n<li>The previous hosts&#8217; server environment was getting a little old, and definitely a pain to work around.<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;ve got some exciting, somewhat higher profile new stuff coming out for Rocketship Games.<\/li>\n<li>I wanted to de-personalize both the main site and the original blog location.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, the original blog URL\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\">http:\/\/rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/<\/a>) is going to be for general Rocketship Games announcements and such, and I move here. \u00a0That last point is also why the boardgame review articles came off the main site. \u00a0They&#8217;re still available on <a href=\"http:\/\/boardgamegeek.com\">BoardGameGeek<\/a>, but will also probably be making their way here.<\/p>\n<p>At first I was really torn about restoring all the old blog contents. \u00a0Part of it was that I lost about 18mo&#8211;2 years of posts, so all of the book and movie reviews are gone, as well as some great game recaps. \u00a0At that point there was a little bit of a &#8220;Well, if we lost so much, just let it all burn!&#8221; feeling going on. \u00a0There&#8217;s also something to be said for starting fresh.<\/p>\n<p>However, having restored it, I&#8217;m super glad I did&#8212;there&#8217;s even more to be said for awesome pictures and a lot of great stuff with good friends. \u00a0So, none of the old URLs will work, but everything should be here except for that 2 year period sucked into the warp.<\/p>\n<p>As a side note, I have no idea why all the old posts have funny little &#8216;\u00c2&#8217; characters preceding many sentences. \u00a0They don&#8217;t seem to be in the actual database entries&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, the Rocketship Games site moved to a new host, and as part of both that and a general reorganization, my blog&#8217;s URL has moved to this new location \u00a0that you&#8217;re reading right now (http:\/\/rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena). 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