Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-25330335-20170131224154/@comment-25330335-20170201221521

Special Elf Friend wrote: If we want to go towards hosting our own we could always build a Wordpress website. From my experience with it, it would work pretty well.

Or we could just accept that this is a Wiki and create a forum on a website like Lefora... I'm currently playing with MediaWiki and nginx and seeing if I can build a functional internal server with material from this site. If I can understand that, then I think it would be feasible to host ourselves. It would be more work, but we wouldn't have to worry about someone who's not directly related to the community shutting us down or changing things that we don't want changed. I would say if we were to do that, we'd also set up our own forum, with features that we want, as opposed to getting something hosted for free.

@Sinth - My main concern about that platform (Which looks really cool, btw!) is that it's not compatible with our current setup. I mean, we'd have to completely rewrite each page from scratch, and reformat everything. Also, if it were to be so all-encompassing, I think that we'd need the mod team to move to it as well, as opposed to continuing to have two groups of people on two separate platforms (Wiki and FB) that overlap.

@Willy - I also agree with this. Moving this site will be a tremendous amount of work, and we should do whatever possible to avoid having to take that road. However, we need to consider the amounts of work each separate pursuit would entail, and weigh those options accordingly.