What happened to my blog?

airwalkrr · Oct 13, 2012

I used to use the ENWorld blog fairly frequently. I had a lot of material there which I used to reference. I developed a lot of ideas for house rules, campaign-specific material, and other ideas for roleplaying in general. I went to look for it today and I noticed the blog feature is nowhere to be found. Has this feature been disabled? Is it possible to recover this information so that I can transfer it to another blog site?

Morrus · Oct 13, 2012

The blog system completely imploded a year or two ago. It is still there, so we can recover stuff for you given a little time, but turning it on kills the whole site.

I'm actually looking into ways we can reactivate it.

airwalkrr · Oct 13, 2012

If there were a way to recover it, I would greatly appreciate it, even if just in text format. I had made about 40 or 50 posts to it over the years that included a lot of details on my house rules in D&D and I was wanting to go over them.

Mark CMG · Oct 14, 2012

You might have some luck recovering some of the blog posts on your own using -

Internet Archive: Wayback Machine

airwalkrr · Oct 14, 2012

Well that site was helpful but it was like looking for a needle in a haystack. Unfortunately ENWorld has not been very well archived for the last three years. Thanks for the link though.

Mark CMG · Oct 14, 2012

airwalkrr said:
Well that site was helpful but it was like looking for a needle in a haystack. Unfortunately ENWorld has not been very well archived for the last three years. Thanks for the link though.

Sure thing. It's definitely hit and miss. Hopefully you found a few of the older ones to help let you begin to rebuild your collection of fleshed out ideas.