ENSL needs a new webmaster
Jiriki
retired ns1 player Join Date: 2003-01-04 Member: 11780Members, NS1 Playtester, Squad Five Silver
retired ns1 player Join Date: 2003-01-04 Member: 11780Members, NS1 Playtester, Squad Five Silver
<div class="IPBDescription">Time for me to go</div>Hey fellow players,
I am too busy in real life to handle ENSL duties anymore. ENSL needs a new webmaster and head admin if it wants to bring itself to NS2 era. The new webmaster will have to take care of the website, ts3 and game servers at least. There will bugs to squash and the layout could do a polish. Familiarity with Ruby on Rails and Linux shell is needed. And last but not least, lots of motivation to create the competitive scene for NS2!
In any case, <a href="http://www.ensl.org/articles/401" target="_blank">NS1 era</a> for ENSL is over for good. It was many years and over thirty competitions of fun, sweat and fury. Thanks to everyone who made this possible. Cherish what you have, all good things come to an end.
I am too busy in real life to handle ENSL duties anymore. ENSL needs a new webmaster and head admin if it wants to bring itself to NS2 era. The new webmaster will have to take care of the website, ts3 and game servers at least. There will bugs to squash and the layout could do a polish. Familiarity with Ruby on Rails and Linux shell is needed. And last but not least, lots of motivation to create the competitive scene for NS2!
In any case, <a href="http://www.ensl.org/articles/401" target="_blank">NS1 era</a> for ENSL is over for good. It was many years and over thirty competitions of fun, sweat and fury. Thanks to everyone who made this possible. Cherish what you have, all good things come to an end.
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I hope someone picks up the job and helps making ENSL an active leading league for NS2 in europe. I also heard rumors that the first ENSL NS2 Season is planned.. ;)
Also, thank you for everything you've done with ENSL.
That's the place where I learned about NS1, and played gathers and nightcups for about the last year of NS1 activity.
I'm sad I was never in a real team in NS1, nor played the seasons. It looks like some massively great times I've missed.
With NS2 about to hit, I think ENSL could play a major role.
A place where the main focus is what the players need, within some reasonable boundries.
A place where you're not playing for promotion or prizes.
A place where you can play longer term competetions, instead of rushy tournaments, which can be hard to endure.
With this I mean no offense to the official tournaments, you've done a great job for the game and promotion of it, with very little budget.
But the focus have not been on giving the players a great experience.
This is where ENSL can hopefully play a good rolemodel that can be copied free of charge.
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Cmon UWE, you can take it over and host it from the office! I think the gather system plays a VERY important role in the community!
Why is that? UWE isn't going anywhere, it's their game, they got resources to run a server...
Or do you mean you wan't something "independent" from the developer? (how ironic with them being indies :P)
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That's not irony.
How is it not ironic if some one wants a site independent from an independent developer? (if now that's what Fanatic means)
Or what is irony then?
It does not mean that UWE can't host tournaments or keep supporting the community, I just really think it would limit its growth. Its better to have dedicated players who have full time and dedication keep doing it. They usually have easier access to all the teams/players and it will be less restrictive.
I have already seen small hints of frustration and limitation happening in last 3-4 tournaments and we don't want them to grow.
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It's really sad to see you go Jiriki, thanks for the awesome work you have done up til now :). I wish you best of luck in the future.
I will still take care of the server as it doesn't require much intervention on regular basis.
Currently the server is locked out by ISP because someone DDOS'ed it. Seriously, who bothers?
ENSL kept me going when Australia had no servers, and I met a bunch of good people through there.
I miss ENSL already!
At the time that competitive NS was waning in North America there was a surge of activity in Europe. I remember naysayers promising that the demise of EU NS was imminent and I think that might have been the case if not for you. Maybe this isn't the case, but it certainly looked like it from the outside.
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I would love to be a part of bringing ensl.org back into life.
love u all ;)
No, as Fana said, jiriki is still hosting it. But there are lot of stuff to fix and maintain on the site.
I'm a freelance web developer. To be honest, I wasn't much involved in the ENSL scene back in the day; I only participated in World Cups and did some mercing.
I know PHP pretty well, and have used architectures like MVC in the past. I also know quite a bit about web design. I'm pretty good at the whole HTML5/CSS3/jQuery deal (also just known as HTML5).
I'm sure I'm up to the task, I would just like some more info. I'm primarily doing this to get back into the community for NS2, as I have fallen in love with the game.
You can add me on Steam, pm me on IRC (Ricaz@Quakenet) or just PM me here.
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