Announcing natural selection mod's latest web reso

Rob

<div class="IPBDescription">The hive, goes live</div>The Hive crew is proud to announce its debut.  The Hive is an unofficial Natural Selection fan site.  Our goal is to get the great, unofficial work our community is doing out into the public where it belongs.  The NS community is strong, and is churning out quite a few good things.  It is a given that the general gaming population would rather not wade through forums to find these pictures, stories, and maps, so we plan to bring them to you.  Our site will essentially be a list of the finest work our community hammers out, and it’s yours to view.  We will be updating and posting news to these sites regularly, so if you’ve seen the official side of NS and are still thirsty for more, come visit The Hive.

<a href="http://hive.readyroom.org" target="_blank">http://hive.readyroom.org</a>

With God's good grace, that will also appear on PHL, ValvePit, and ZP:NS soon...

Slycaster

Awesome rob! If you need any help, for posting and what not, give me a ring, i'd be glad to help!

realityisdead

Sweet! <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->

I'm really looking forward to seeing this thing take off with loads of content!

Yamazaki, those Penumbra shots are just rockin. Especially the second one.

DruBo

The ZP:NS one will be a little delayed, just so's you all know.

Rob: if you read this before I find you, get in touch with me pronto.

RhoadsToNowhere

That looks like a really awesome site, I'll have to submit some of my work when I get around to creating it.  Gimme a holler if you need anyone to help you out.

Comprox

Wow that site is <b>amazing</b>!
Oh, the content is good too!

ShadowFang

uuuum... i'll just do stuff <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->

Rob

LOL, comp, you made the thing!

Bozo, check your forum messages.

SentrySteve

<!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo--> nice looking site <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->

Greedo

Hey nice site. <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->  I hope it really takes off.  I can't wait to start flooding your mailbox (though I probably won't <!--emo&???--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='???'><!--endemo-->)

pielemuis

Nice site, I'll prolly send you guys some work <!--emo&:D--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'><!--endemo-->

Graheim

That site is a really good idea.  The forums here are flooded with talent and great ideas, but finding them can be a pain, especially for new comers. For example, I thought I was up to date on the pyrowolf comics but I had missed about half of them.  Having one easy to navigate site with all of those gems is very handy.

Flayra

I agree.  Way to go guys, I look forward to following the site.

My only suggestion so far is that perhaps you want to keep as much content on your site as possible, as opposed to linking to the forums or external sites.  This will let you keep the visual theme consistent, will prevent ads or pop-ups from distracting your viewers, and will prevent broken links.  I realize that some of the people providing content may want the link to their own sites, but I would still try to encourage people to let you host it for them.  You should of course, have prominent links to the content creators' e-mail and personal sites.

Great work.

Rob

Thanks guys.

Flay, I've sorta stuck a deal with MonsE.  In order to conserve his bandwidth, we're encourageing the opposite.  For one thing, most of the map stuff we'll get should be on NS World already (hint, mappers), so hosting it will be redundant.  Also, the volume of work we'll be posting about, I estimate will really suck bandwith.

If you count all the email attachments, ftp uploads, and site downloads, it adds up.  Since we've seen that bandwith can be tricky around here, I thought it best to go easy.

Cuerzo

In times like these, I wish I could do anything useful, like draw or write...

PyroWolf

Yay! Archivey goodness! Yes, nice site!

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Pyro Wolf