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Post by ArchdukeOfNaboo on Jul 15, 2020 23:22:11 GMT
Hello there!
Many of you may have been readers of the Star Wars Prequel Appreciation Blog, which was the go-to place for prequelists during the Dark Times, and has been dormant since November 2018. I thought it might be a fun idea to create a board where we can link to some of our favourite blog entries of the past - or those pages with memorable comment sections. Feel free to add your own annotations.
I'm also creating this thread to share the news of an email reply from the admin. There was nothing personal disclosed, so I hope she won't mind me quoting in this public forum. It's dated 29 June 2020:
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Post by Cryogenic on Jul 16, 2020 1:19:59 GMT
Hello there! Many of you may have been readers of the Star Wars Prequel Appreciation Blog, which was the go-to place for prequelists during the Dark Times, and has been dormant since November 2018. Yep. I used to click onto SWPAS a lot. I participated in the comments section from time-to-time (admittedly: not often -- nothing like Naboo News!), and even briefly posted to the message board Lazy Padawan used to have linked there. I also wrote an essay one time for SWPAS that's somewhere in the archives. And it introduced me to several wonderful prequel articles and blogs, chief among them: A fabulous exegesis of the Brothers' Farewell scene in ROTS: smittysgelato.wordpress.com/2016/05/21/prequel-posts-1-brothers-farewell/A sample entry for Matril's excellent "Star Words" blog series: matril.livejournal.com/156496.htmlI'll try to add a few entries or comments from various entries later! Those comment sections could sometimes be quite lively -- before Lazy Padawan pulled the plug. Thanks for that. Well done for taking the initiative. Quite a cryptic response from her. A lot has changed? I guess so. |
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Post by ArchdukeOfNaboo on Jul 16, 2020 23:10:00 GMT
I do find it odd that the blog can continue on Facehole, but not in its original, beautiful, blogosphere home. With the comment section pulled, what was there to fear? It seemed she lasted only a few months with that, which is a shame. What makes Zuckerberg's comment sections more tolerable?
I should have asked her how long the blog will remain online. I wouldn't be surprised if it suddenly went out like a candle. We've seen this with other blogs, right? I hope the site is fully archived - it might just prove helpful to future historians of the Star Wars fandom.
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Post by Cryogenic on Jul 17, 2020 0:18:00 GMT
I do find it odd that the blog can continue on Facehole, but not in its original, beautiful, blogosphere home. With the comment section pulled, what was there to fear? It seemed she lasted only a few months with that, which is a shame. What makes Zuckerberg's comment sections more tolerable? A good question. Humans are contradictory at the best of times. Indeed, it seems we actually enjoy contradicting ourselves. Hence the running gag of C-3PO repeatedly being stumped by human behaviour (even as he acts human himself) across the SW saga. I share your concern. Another blog that I sometimes used to add comments to (which is filed under the heading "Inactive But Not Forgotten" on the right-side navigation column on SWPAS) disappeared like that many years ago: A Certain Point Of View (snapshot dated April 30th 2017)That's the most up-to-date snapshot before the domain expired, one month later (according to the next available snapshot: from May 2017). I didn't have the wherewithal to archive it myself -- what exists of it (fragmentary/incomplete) is merely what the Wayback Machine itself picked up (or perhaps the handiwork of another). It's a shame. I kept meaning to back it up. I just never got around to it. I think many of the blog entries are accessible, however. Some of the comments have also been saved and can still be read. It only ran (was only updated) for about eighteen months. SWPAS is, by far, the most significant pro-prequel blog on the web. Lazy Padawan deserves a lot of credit for starting it up and sticking with it for so many years. It's unfortunate that she no longer updates it, and -- as you have noted -- weirdly posts updates on Facebook instead. The main Internet is the most democratic place for it. To mothball it after so long, yet keep it going on a greed-dominated social media platform, is odd. |
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