ARSON News will be back

Hello, everyone!

I was thinking of starting a new site where I could talk about things not immediately technically related as I do on my blog. Then I realized something. I created a site where I could do that quite a while ago. I worked on it for a while. Then I let it die. I'm talking, of course, about The Association for Reason and Societal Outreach Now, which I'm sure you know better as ARSON news.

So, to David, Cole (are either of you subscribed, even?), and anyone else who subscribes to this feed (I'm really surprised you stayed subscribed this long!) I will make you a promise. Before mid-August, I will get this site back up, with content and whatever else is necesary.

Here's a list of what I still have to do:

1. Write content.
2. Get the Advertising system working properly. We want to pay our authors.
3. The forums suck. I want the logins integrated between both sites.
   • Make a registration page so people can register for forum accounts.
4. Upgrade Wordpress. I think we're still running 2.1. Wordpress is on 2.6, so we're a bit behind the times.
5. Fix the clearly broken comment system. This, unfortunately, might mean moving it to the normal Wordpress one.
6. Get some advertising of our own! We need readers!
7. Customize the author environment. This site is pretty much a copy of the site I did for The Blaze, which works way better. I'll merge the changes.
8. I want to add an events page
9. More categories
10. Come up with an official method of paying authors. I'm thinking some combo of page views and ratings.
11. Other misc. things
    • I hate the default bullet points.
    • The forum is still sort of sucky design wise.
    • Sub-menus for categories with children would be awesome. No.
    • We need a twitter.
    • Upgrade the server to PHP5.

So, you can see what still needs to be done. Hopefully I can finish it in time, if not, well, at least ARSON news will go down with a fight.