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If a large, old Zelda site like Ice's Zelda Central officially goes kaput, don't
you think it deserves some space for me to talk about? Even if it is IZC...
I've simply lost track of who is the webmaster and who is the most active staff
over at Ice's Zelda Central. Maniacal Clown did a lot of good for that site,
and I've never had any reason to be ill towards that man. It would've been
great if he was allowed, and had inclination, to take over the site. Ah well.
I was, as per request, going to reveal all my old-school, "inside"
knowledge of IZC's past on that site's message boards, and I would have if it
weren't for KodeKeeper. However, I realized that there were many people at
Vortex Gen who came on board much later than the events I had knowledge of, and
the newcomers didn't want a bunch of old troubles being stirred up. In order
to not disrupt what might be good members of a currently-decent community, I
decided to remain silent. One thing that Maniacal Clown and I do agree on,
though, is that Nemesis's post which was attacking everybody but herself, from
ZHQ and IZC, was inaccurate. Without going into details, the timeline had the
most number of clear-cut errors that I could identify.
I simply do not have enough knowledge to be able to identify the original Ice
who has disappeared. The recent webmaster of Vortex Generation who was called
Ice may be that person, or perhaps not. I cannot deny that he is the same
person, argueing that he clearly is not, but nor can I accept that he is. I
have come to the unfortunate conclusion that I won't ever be able to meet up
with the original Ice and recognize him as being such. I did have respect for
that guy while he was running the original version of the site.
The latest turn of events is that IZC's webmaster has decided to stop running
the site. The "IZC Temporarily Closed" graphic was all that was on the page.
Now, the page is as unresponsive as
ZHQ. Then a staff member of IZC writes to me calling the site a thing of the
past. However, if you buy the story that the recent man Ice was the same
person as the original Ice, then according to that story and other facts, Ice
has closed down his site before from a lack of interest of that person.
However, IZC revived itself later.
Whether the site gets taken over nicely, taken over (illegally) by force or
trickery, restarted by a totally different individual (likely famous among IZC's
community) who uses their own name or adopts the name of Ice, whether that
person tries to act like that person is the same Ice or not, or whether in
maybe six months "the real Ice" will resurface ready to herald that
site into a new golden age: No matter how it may come back, I'm not convinced
that I'll never again be hearing of a site called Ice's Zelda Central.
Maybe
it won't be until another really-neat Zelda game captures everyone's attention,
but I'm sure some of you still have each other's ICQ numbers and E-Mail
addresses, and it's difficult to imagine that the community of IZC fans will
disappear. The KVS Message
Board is still around and is clearly the current successor to the
"great KVS everyone remembers during KVS's glory days".
As for your "the old school is more or less officially gone" statement,
I disagree. First of all, I have to say that ZHQ is not
officially
gone. If you want to count it as gone, though, I guess the old school of main
Zelda sites I cared about could be considered gone. However, that's really a
technicality. Those sites may be gone, meaning their addresses and names, but
the people of those sites are still around. The sites I remember most fondly
from that day and age are ZHQ, IZC (in a few ways), and TGL. TGL is the most
clear exception: It isn't officially gone by any means, as it later became
Zlda.Com and now sits at dekutree.com,
and I consider the modern incarnation of DekuTree.Com to be what TGL has
become. That site's been in relative or even extremely active status ever
since the glorious TGL days. You're not going to be able to convince me that
all the old sites have died off as long as what is currently DekuTree.Com is
around. Long live DekuTree.Com!
Even if that site does bellyflop, even if none of
the leading sites date back to 1997, the staff of ZHQ has by and large rallied
around me and this site, and so if you stick around you should be able to see
them in action at HYLIA.Com. I agree they
may not be seen very publicly at the moment, but they are by and large still
affiliated with a Zelda site and looking forward to the day I finally get this
site launched and start posting their stuff, and when HYLIA.Com does get going
then it won't seem as though the group ever died because the group never did.
As for if this site is still in development, the answer is: absolutely!
Yes, I have worked on the site recently. It's hard for me to find
time that I want to spend on the site because when I do spend time on the site
I spend a great ordeal of time on it, usually the remainder of the day and
staying up late at that. Therefore, it's difficult for me to start working on
the post-launch version, but I do do it.
If the
site ever looks like it doesn't have much of a future, whether as an actively
updated site or even just being an existing site, and if I'm still running the
site when that day comes, I'll be up front about that and say so. That is how
I operate.
And No, I am not seeking
to bring a whole bunch of IZC staffers on board just because that site closed
down. As for "down the road", I'll cross that bridge when I come to
it.
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