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<blockquote data-quote="Morrus" data-source="post: 6611050" data-attributes="member: 1"><p>It was very easy. It took a couple of days, and involved a database move for the forums, IIRC, but it didn't break. Eric simply left a message on his old site directing people to the new location. </p><p></p><p>I don't know that we could do that so easily now. Back then we were talking a database a fraction of the size it is now. 16 years is a lot of growth!</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yeah, I created EN World myself when Eric's site still existed. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Not weird, because I'm so used to it. I wonder if it's ever weird for Eric.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The etymology makes sense in a way -- it was for a hosted shared setting (the first of oh so many....) made by some members of Eric's forum. That setting eventually got a name (Daemonforge) but in the meantime the site needed a name. "The E.N. World" was supposed to be a placeholder. </p><p></p><p>The only thing about it that's not ideal is that it's not great for search engines and the like. It doesn't have "RPG News" in the URL or anything. You don't hear it and know immediately what it does. It's not an optimised name, but it's hard to imagine it being called anything else now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Morrus, post: 6611050, member: 1"] It was very easy. It took a couple of days, and involved a database move for the forums, IIRC, but it didn't break. Eric simply left a message on his old site directing people to the new location. I don't know that we could do that so easily now. Back then we were talking a database a fraction of the size it is now. 16 years is a lot of growth! Yeah, I created EN World myself when Eric's site still existed. Not weird, because I'm so used to it. I wonder if it's ever weird for Eric. The etymology makes sense in a way -- it was for a hosted shared setting (the first of oh so many....) made by some members of Eric's forum. That setting eventually got a name (Daemonforge) but in the meantime the site needed a name. "The E.N. World" was supposed to be a placeholder. The only thing about it that's not ideal is that it's not great for search engines and the like. It doesn't have "RPG News" in the URL or anything. You don't hear it and know immediately what it does. It's not an optimised name, but it's hard to imagine it being called anything else now. [/QUOTE]
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