You guys haven't heard much from the PA front lately (if at all), so here's what happened.  I might be a little fuzzy on the time frames.

Pixel Academy/Pixelerate's hosting went down unexpectedly.  After about a week we finally got hold of Bjorn and he told us that they'd made a server switch.  In his own words "everyone just forgot" to tell us.  Crap.

Another two weeks go by.  Bjorn gets hold of Mori and tells him that they "lost" our files.  Now, I'm not sure what kind of setup they've got there, but in my experience if you're going about a server backup/switch the simple way, then the only way to "lose" files during a switch is to intentionally leave them out, no?  Oh well, at least they warned us that they were switching servers so that we had a chance to back up.  Oh wait, they didn't.

We sent them a month-old backup and crossed our fingers, hoping that we'd be back in business soon.  That was about two or three weeks ago.  Forgive me if I sound a tiny bit irritated.

"So what now?" rebirth of the forum by any means necessary, optimally not dependent on a completely disinterested party.  If anybody still cares, that is ;p

I know a lot of people were already active here, but I just wanted to thank everyone here for taking up the slack, as between our other obligations and the present situation us PA admins have been woefully absent.  I'm also pleased to say that Pixelation has finally worked out most of the kinks that cropped up early in the development process and that a new forum is forthcoming, although between 40 hour weeks at work by day and then 40 hour weeks of school/study by night I've hardly had the time to even touch base with Pep or the others, let alone help them :\ Pep's really got the S on his chest, here... he's been the face, brain, and beating heart of the operation and against staggering odds it's moving forward :p

And now you know.

therye trying to get rid of the standard php. if i recall correct, theyre making an whole own thing. im for that idea, since you know what happened when there was this gay hacking scriptkid that ruined Pixelation.

Well, hopefully all the pixel forums will find reliable hosts and security and all that. And I hope pixelation gets an easy to remember domain name this time instead of that long ass web1.t43.abcdefg.blahblahblah domain name.

Yeah, same here, and make of THAT what you will :P there's just no replacement for Pixelation.

It's still a long ways off, although if it's half as cool as we want it to be, then yeah, it'll rock :P and be ALMOST worth the downtime, as Wolvie said.

Well, I can't speak for either PixelJoint or Pixelation, so I dunno :P a mag would be badass though, no matter who sponsored it... even if it was just a website formatted into pages like a magazine... pixel pushers plying their craft on covers and centerfolds, printed pixel works bringing forth a physical manifestation of our so beloved and yet so elusively intangible digital medium, making it accessible to an entirely different, and yet all-inclusive world.  That makes me so hard I could club a seal.

Yay, compliment :P Well, now that we know people still have an interest in PA/Pixelerate, we at least have even more motivation to get it back up and running.  We had some big plans and high hopes, and kind of got cut off right in the middle of a transitional period.  We'll probably use the opportunity to put things back the way they were when what was there worked and what didn't work wasn't there.  Or something.  Used up all the brain-juice on that last monologue, so good night for now :x

Don't play nice... Fight! Fight! Fight!

j/k.

Late is better than never though.

So let's end it here and be happy that they'll be back up soon. YAAAAY biscuits for everybody!