Aardwolf Blog Introduction
So why, after all these years, an Aardwolf blog? Several reasons. There is a huge amount of activity taking place building out the MUD right now. A lot of this activity is not worth announcing until finalized, but many people are interested in what we’re up to. A blog will be the perfect place to talk about that.
Having a blog will also allow us to cover a level of detail on changes and the reasons behind them that would not be appropriate for the announcement board.
Finally, reposting announcements to the blog will allow people to subscribe via RSS to see what is changing in the MUD.
The design needs a lot of work at the moment, but as you can see, will basically be the same style as the Aardwolf web page.
I decided to require user registration before comments can be posted. There is no value to anyone if I spend half my life tracking down spam rather than working on the MUD.
Well, that’s about it. Comments welcome. Good idea? Bad idea?
Looks great! Nice to see the continuity between the website and the blog, and I wait with excitement future developments!
Wonderful Lasher… It will be nice for new users see a time line of our progress
I think it’s a great idea
Perhaps even more people will be drawn to the mud because they see it’s constantly changing from reading the site.
I think this was a long time coming,
much easier to read it here than within the game, fantastic look and feel as well. -Soul
Cool, Cool, You guys are really knocking yourselves out, and I for one appreciate it.
This is kind of funny.. I was thinking about an Aard blog just the other day…
Mud development has a long and honored tradition of secrecy followed by veiled hints of “BIG CHANGES ARE COMING, WOOHOO!” and the final go-live that features acceptance similar to the crew in Alien watching that monster eat it’s way out of their friend’s chest.
THIS, on the other hand, is the perfect tool to expose the AARD community to development, guide the perception of the populace, and garner support. Good on you Lasher… yet another reason why after 25ish years of mudding, I make AARD my game of choice.
Flat/Odd
Very cool. Keeping people up to date on changes is helpful. This will be especially nice for newbies who are learning the system as parts of the system are changing. Excellent idea.
Blogs are right up my alley … I personally have 6 of them, and love creating Word Press themes. You couldn’t have hit a better note!
#7: Flat - you’re right. We try to be open as possible but there’s a fine line between too much info. Particularly as some projects get worked on but never see the live mud. So this is a good place to share that.
#9: Mirara - I was amazed how easy it was to get this far. There’s some weird issue with the template defaulting to blank I need to figure out, but otherwise the design so far is starting from scratch last night with no previous wordpress experience.
Does this also mean that all announce notes will (by association) be archived and searchable? That’s something we’ve needed for a long time (they’ve been “saved” on the new version of the site, but a page-by-page listing of announce note subjects isn’t exactly useful compared to a searchable archive).
Is there a way to combine this with the wiki (it’d be nice to be logged into the wiki after logging in here, etc).
all i can say is - brilliant.
thank you.
ls.
Sweet! I love the blog idea.
Great, yet another password to remember. *sob*
One of these days there’s going to be a need to forget something in order to add another password and login to my memory. I’m not sure what that’ll be anymore, but I’m sure it’ll end up being very ironic.
I totally think this is a good idea.
Sweet!
Look forward to all the info.
Thank You.
Wonderful idea.
Love It!! Great idea!
Thanks Lasher!
I think it’s a good idea. I look forward to seeing where things start going.
*sniffle* it’s so pretty, I feel like crying!
I love the idea.
Now I’ll have something to check every 10 minutes to see what new is happening! So I demand it be updated at least that often! 
Seriously nice to see we’ll get some information on what’s up and coming.
nice one lasher, thanks
This has been long needed. I like it alot and I personally think this is a great idea. I hope to see plenty of updates.
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Great idea, glad to see it happen.
I have been away for a while. Amazed how the site has grown. Looking forward to playing in the mud again.
Well as long as it not going to be a 13 hop connection like the current one (I’m in asia), I agree and I think its a good idea.
My 1st comment is a question, hehehe
How flexible is the lua codebase atm ? Is it possible for mortals to code, say, minigame scripts, like poker and embed them into the game ?
I’m cool, I’m a blogger now.
New to the mud, been away for a loooong time from muds in general. Last played was an ACKmud which Aardwolf seems to share a few general ideas with. Great job on the Mud! Look forward to playing for a while!