Oubliette.NU
Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2016 7:43 pm
The Caged Songbird Network
I've been wanting to replace disconsolation.net for quite some time, so I bought oubliette.nu in February. The network revamp is something I've been working on pretty much ceaselessly for the past two weeks, as I just... hated everything I had up on the placeholder layout of disconsolation.net.
I rewrote all the pages for my network to make it reflect who I am now, as five years (when I bought my first domain) is a long time. I reflected on my journey through fandom, websiting and shrining, and wrote down a lot of my thoughts about visiting and creating shrines in general. It's lengthy, but it's also me, and it's important to me.
The network page was what bothered me the most about the previous version, since I didn't anticipate making many shrines (at least not so soon), and the one column set-up just didn't give them the appropriate space. On the revamped network, the shrines are grouped by type, and you can visit them directly. But you can also click on each of them and see a short introduction to them, as well as a wall of text about the "making of" (for myself, and for whoever is interested in trying out new things) and my own feelings regarding each shrine.
I've also finally added a proper update blog to the network, as well as a long overdue guestbook.
I've linked some members of Amassment who I frequently interact with on the links page, but if we've spoken personally before and you'd like to exchange links, let me know. <3 To everyone else who has linked to disconsolation.net - thank you! (I hadn't added links to my previous link page because I hadn't figured out how to set them up yet, and then I knew I was moving off disconsolation.net...) I'd appreciate it if you could update any link to oubliette.nu! The same goes for my shrines; note that some of them have changed subdomains. disconsolation.net will expire by the end of the year.
Let me know what you think, and whether everything is working properly? :> (And don't feel like you have to read stuff omg, it's super lengthy. /o\)