DJ Hadoken 7 has this to say:
Happy New Year 2024!
Where do I start? In 2023, even though I worked on this blog almost every day, I wanted to make more new posts than I actually did. But the process of resurrecting the site has been a much more daunting task than I naïvely anticipated. So I’ve prioritized resurrecting the old posts before making any new ones. Technically, there is some new material within some of the old posts and even some “new old posts” that were not on the original site.
It has been a journey, indeed. I have laughed quite a lot this year as I put the old posts back up. And as I mentioned in my Mandela Effect post, it’s been like opening a time capsule. Reliving the days of the Bench Wars. The forums. Kewl Kat’s raps. Oh yeah, and DJ Wang’s crazy anecdotes. The Window Shields one is one of my personal favorites. It’s too bad he never finished his movie review of Spy Game (2001). Maybe someday...
Thankfully, in 2023 I was able to complete most of the tedious work. But there is still some work left because, believe it or not, I’m still not done putting all the posts back up. I think I’m only about halfway through with what will eventually be put back up.
But as I mentioned, there are some “new old posts” too. So this blog is becoming its own beast, in a sense. It is a resurrection but it is also a different site than before. Only about half of the old posts are up, but with the addition of some more “new old posts” this blog may soon end up having about the same, or maybe more stuff to read than the original site.
With the addition of the “new old posts” previous Poss members who were previously not actual “Funk updaters” have been “promoted” to “official Funk updater” status. For example, BlindPanzer. Okay, maybe that part only makes sense to me.
There’s also another topic that I want to talk about here. Resurrecting this site has reminded me how much the modern day internet sucks. Like, for example, checking the search queries for the site. Back in the day, I could use Awstats and easily access the information I wanted in one convenient place. Now I need to check like 4 or more “analytics services” that provide incomplete information within convoluted interfaces that are full of mostly useless information.
And there’s almost an obscene amount of other doodads and gadgets and things you need to fiddle around with just to put up the most basic site. Even this relatively simple blog has a bunch of wonky stuff going on in the background.
Then there’s the “cookie” handling. Permission for this. Permission for that. User settings. User agreements. It’s insane. I’m talking about traditional website administration. I’m not talking about the drag and drop site builder services that are popular now. I view those to be more like an extension of social media or like digital business cards.
The modern day internet demands that you need a separate post for everything. On riafunk.com, there were only a handful of sections where you could access anything in just a few clicks. But now, the same information has to be spread across hundreds of posts to accommodate for “modern” standards. It feels unnecessarily bloated.
And not only that, the modern day internet almost requires that each post has its own IMAGE. If there’s no IMAGE nobody will click the post. Preparing images for all of the old posts has gobbled up so much of my time. Have we all forgotten that hand coded HTML still works on browsers? At some point, regular people may get fed up with these shenanigans and declare, “Screw the aesthetics and all those bells and whistles!” and start hand coding simple HTML sites again.
Speaking of aesthetics, as I mentioned in this post linked here, I personally prefer the “third incarnation” of this site that existed up until I switched to the prone-to-breaking WordPress. But at least I still have a working offline version of it. Even though it’s over 10 years old, it looks good and easy to read. It’s too bad that by the time I fixed it up, hardly anybody was coming to the site. It just ended up gathering dust before being obliterated by spam.
But the past is the past. And besides, this is technically riafunk.blog, not riafunk.com. This is the new outpost for “The Funk” only. “The Funk” being just one section of what was once riafunk.com. riafunk.blog is becoming its own beast, and the mustard stain look here has started to grow on me.
Anyway, riafunk.com may continue to have an aesthetic closer to the original site. The construction process is ongoing over there, too. The reopening of The Board will no doubt be a game changer.
I already alluded to this blog as being “its own beast” a couple of times. I did that on purpose. That’s because 2024 is also the year of another beast: the Dragon. And maybe you already noticed, but there’s a particular dragon-like-beast that lurks around this blog. I’m talking about NONE OTHER THAN SPINOSAURUS. That’s why, as far as riafunk.blog is concerned, 2024 shall be...
THE YEAR OF SPINOSAURUS
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Just like the Ancients chose the RIA DJs so long ago, Spinosaurus has obviously chosen The Funk and this blog.
I’m aware that some may consider what I’m about to say next as a blasphemy against the Ancients. Something like this is unprecedented; unheard of in the archives of RIAfunk history. But this can’t be ignored anymore. It’s time to acknowledge that SPINOSAURUS is the official guardian of this blog and essentially the mascot. When you visit this blog, SPINOSAURUS WILL REIGN SUPREME.
By popular demand and to commemorate THE YEAR OF SPINOSAURUS, I have prepared another batch of Spinosaurus jokes. To be more specific, SPINOSAURUS AND VULTURE JOKES.
There must be some connection between Spinosaurus and the Ancients. Maybe after all of this construction work is done, we can get some fellow RIAopian paleontologists to look into this intriguing connection.
This year we stomp alongside Spinosaurus. We can’t ride it because its got all those spiny things on its back. This blog may have been a sleeping giant. But now it’s roaring loudly. Louder than ever before. The internet quakes with every stomp it takes. And it doesn’t matter if you notice or not, because SPINOSAURUS IS GONNA GOBBLE YOU UP EITHER WAY.
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