mathbrush
October 25, 2023, 2:38am
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This thread was when news of the IFDB change first came out:
Over in the IFDB curation questions thread, there was some discussion about community maintenance and updates of IFDB as a service.
Dan Fabulich and I contacted MJR about this to ask his thoughts. Turns out, Mike has been thinking about the same subject recently. He wrote:
I think you guys [IFTF] were thinking along the lines of trying to resource some incremental development work on the site. At the moment, I’d be more inclined to look into outright migration of the site, as that would bette…
and this is when it went through:
We’ve got three big pieces of news about IFDB, the Interactive Fiction Database:
In 2021, the new “IFDB Committee” of IFTF will adopt IFDB from its founder, Michael J Roberts
We’re planning to move IFDB from its home at ifdb.tads.org to ifdb.org . The new site isn’t ready yet. We’ll redirect old links to the new website when it becomes available.
The source code of IFDB is now available on Github; we’re open for pull requests!
Don’t know the others yet! MJR was actively approving every IFDB application by hand leading up to the first post, so he hadn’t stepped away in that sense yet.
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