Upgrading NBAWebLog.com
I spent the better part of today upgrading NBAWebLog.com. Previously, NBAWebLog.com was running on an old blog engine called .Text. .Text was a sort of open-source freeware project that was later turned into a more commercial product, Community Server. Like most open-source projects, .Text had some rough edges and, as it morphed into a newer, more feature rich software package, support for .Text grew thin. Long story short, I should have upgraded to Community Server years ago.
The good news is that I finally got off my lazy butt and did the upgrade. Unfortunately, like most upgrades, there were some hiccups in the process. The main issue is that I decided not to transfer all of the blog content or blog accounts. While the "old" site had a dozen bloggers or so, only two of them had contributed substantially or had made any recent posts. Hence, I did not transfer over those blogs that fell into those categories. If you are one of those bloggers and would like your content online so that you can resume blogging, please let me know and I can still transfer it.
On a more minor note, I decided not to bother transfering the old blog comments. Most blog entries had zero comments, due in large part to the fact that I disabled comments quite a while back in order to stop the onslaught of comment spam directed at this blog. Comments are now re-enabled because Community Server supports comment moderation. So there should be zero comment spam on this blog!
Lastly, the URL patterns used by .Text and Community Server differ a bit. I wrote some code to handle some of these differences automatically, but there are likely still several old URLs that are now broken. I apologize for any inconvenience.
If you are interested in starting your own NBA-related blog, please do drop me a line. I'd be happy to set you up with a blog here, free of charge.
Thanks!