2024 Spring (Summer?) Cleaning

[Jubal]

Hi all,

A small bureaucracy announcement that we're doing a round of tweaking elements of the forum structure, one of our irregular series of spring cleans. To that end we have:

• Archived four subforums. The Fox Box forum hasn't been in use since Flamekebab left over half a decade ago, Spears of Arda was a project that never got anywhere and has no active release, and the Factual Writing section of the forum is a bit superfluous as people can just post things directly to the Great Library, submit to Exilian Articles, or link to their own blogs, other journals, etc. And on a very meta level, archived the 2020 Spring Cleaning board which was about the last time we (in that case mostly our esteemed Sebastokrator Tusky) had a good go at cleaning things up here.
• I've neatened up the organisation of the archives. There's now a specific section for old event forums and one for larger but now defunct site areas and projects. That's not to say the new system is entirely logical, but I think it looks a lot less messy and will make finding things in the archive a bit easier if anyone wants to. From now on new things added to the archive should probably be added to a dated spring clean board, we have those for 2017, 2019, and no 2024.
• Two subforums have been broadened a bit in remit. The Coding Medieval Worlds forum is now bundled with other Medievalisms/Gaming stuff as we're now hosting the Middle Ages in Modern Games conference website, and the Caucasian Prosopography Project has been renamed to the Medieval Caucasus forum for similar reasons.

Importantly, if you have any other suggestions of projects that a) have no working release and b) have been abandoned for 3-4 years or more, then please let me know in this thread so they can be properly archived. Also reports on any out of date pinned threads and other such things would be welcome. Many thanks!

[Tusky]

Seems sensible. I shall have a look and see if there are any other good candidates