Okay, okay. I have it as one of my browser tabs basically at all times.
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I’m in this post and I don’t like it
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Me, clicking it every hour or so… 
please @ me next time 
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My one personal bugbear going forward would be; let people make multiple character pages off one account.
Surely to goodness having to have a login for every character page is 1) very alt unfriendly, 2) means more data-entry and space taken up than needs to be? I admit Im ignorant of the actual workings back there, so this is just a guess. Point 1 still stands, though.
I hope everything goes ok and isn’t too much a pain for you folks, though 
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Being looked at! Some significant technical hurdles involved when tied in with some other elements, but this is an ideal scenario.
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Is there anything a player without coding / website-building skills could do to help out the AA team? I’d take a look at the Join Us page but it’s down now (obviously) and I’m sure many of us are wondering if we can contribute in any way.
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This. I’m not particularly good with coding, but if there’s another way I or others can assist, I’d be happy to do so!
Ahh! That’s really neat 
wishing you guys the best of luck (and patience!)
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We chose to do it that way (back in 2007) because people were really really trying to keep their alts separate. Also, people didn’t usually have all that many alts (you couldn’t have as many on one server; I remember deleting some lvl 10-15 ones I made as RP “NPC’s” to make room at some point).
But yeah, as Ralane said, it’s being looked at.
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Have you considered making it an open source project? I’m sure there are loads of developers in the community that would help if they could.
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I would not accept donations, were I on the AA team. Not just for stability reasons, but because the relationship between the realm and the AA would change too. There will be expectations, at the very least of stability, which would put the volunteers in a position where they -have- to fix things, instead of wanting to fix things. Even with some very loyal and well willing people donating, the tone of this topic wouldn’t be as understanding if donations were done and accepted.
I remember a time, though it may be a very long time ago, I have no sense of it when it comes to WoW, where the AA was forced to stay read-only for a time, atleast I think it was something like that. If there is enough time to do it, which there probably never is, I think it might be nice to effectively ‘archive’ the current Argent Archives and try launching a newer, updated concept, by the same team. The archive wouldn’t even have to be the current AA, I can see there are people here who’d be willing to put in some work, you could create a forum somewhere, roughly with the same categories as the AA, and take on volunteers to manually transfer everything to it, like some sort of AA librarians. People could still browse all the text-based information, and if anyone’s really willing to put in the work, maybe even a few of the most prominent snapshots of the past.
The AA team and the way it operates is crucial, though. I remember a few years ago, two people started building a new sort of AA, and for months advertised their new service. I stopped playing WoW around that time, but I don’t see that project around now, so I suppose it never even took off.
Anyway, great respect for the team. I sincerely believe that the AA and the people who’ve been working on and for it for all these years are one of the big reasons AD became the No. 1 EU RP realm, especially throughout vanilla - TBC and WotLK, where competition was still fierce.
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There’s too much stuff on the current AA to perform a reasonable migration of data as it stands, and paying third parties for the kind of infrastructure upgrade we’d need whilst keeping data intact is 5-6 figure sum kind of money, which isn’t going to happen. We’re not agreed on the approach yet, but I would be surprised if more than 10% of the current data was moved, at least to begin with.
Really hope AA gets back up and running soon. Been a big lover of the site since I first even discovered RP on Argent Dawn, and it’s always a shame when it goes down or when bugs happen. Keep up the good work team.
Much love.
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It’s back.
It’s indeed back.
Do read the info at the top (repeated in the top news item): we’re not fully up and running yet. This is a “beta run”, where we need more than just us admins to poke the server (it was soooo fast with just me online!) 
There’s more tuning to be done, and we’ll probably need to close the server for maintenance some more. We’ll try to keep you updated. Thanks for all the love and support! 
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Back down again xD (or it is for me).
Error 521.
Not just for you. We’re still monitoring, gathering information and fixing things.
The site might well be down (or have a maintenance page) at times, as we continue our quest for a (better) working AA.
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