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Project Discontinued

Hatkirby

You may have noticed that I haven't been working on any Four Island projects recently. Perhaps it's recoil from the InstaDisc Incident, but I think it's because I'm plain lazy. Because of this, I'm sorry to say that I will be discontinuing a few Four Island projects. Here we go.

InstaDisc In light of the InstaDisc Incident, there is no sane reason for InstaDisc is be continued. RSS is a perfectly fine alternative with an advantage: It's much simpler. Plus, InstaDisc's main advantage, the ability for Push notification, only worked for a small percentage of users.

Xidet Xidet was a mistake. There are other IDEs and text editors available that are better. For instance, I use nano on a daily basis to write PHP web applications. I also use it to write C++ and Ruby. For Java (and Ruby), I use NetBeans.

SimpleBlog Unless anyone really wants me to continue this, I will confine it to The S Site because it's more of a tweak-yourself kind of blogging engine.

Single Four As Single Four was never anything other than an extremely esoteric interpreted language, there isn't really a reason to continue developing it. However, I would still like to see some Single Four programs (so far no one's turned anything in).

FoureverNET I discontinued this a LONG time ago, but I never actually announced it. In fact, I never announced its creation either.

Trac Tickets This never really had any point other than a small convince script that didn't deserve to be classified as a "project". Plus, we don't even use Trac anymore, so there's no point in it.

Soshibi I have a strange habit of naming projects after characters in The Hat. Anyway, this was supposed to be an LFS OS, but I got bored of it, and I want to free the name for another project, because, as I said before, I like naming projects after characters in The Hat.

So, there we are. Unless someone really wants me to continue developing these projects, I'm going to close development on them. I do still plan to continue developing Tetrgi and to start developing iNetSneak and Rubiwin sometime.

Hatkirby on January 8th, 2009 at 12:32:22pm
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Comments

I've always wondered, what the banana is The Hat? It sounds very interesting. :D And Yaplet hates me. :(

Drifty on January 8th, 2009 at 8:19:31pm

Ditto! Yaplet's being very annoying. :(

The Hat is an RPG I'm sortof-writing about Hatkirby and stuffes. I've been thinking of the plot for years and I've now actually started writing the engine, but it's a little difficult and I have a ton of things on my hands these days. Anyway, I reuse the main characters' names from the Hat in lots of places. For instance, there's a character in The Hat named "Trindla" (won't tell you who she is or I'll give away the story) and my server computer's named "trindla". Of course, mah laptop is called "fourie" :)

Thanks for commenting, by the way!

Hatkirby on January 8th, 2009 at 8:51:29pm
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