Escaping The Escapist

August 8th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Words

What happened?

This is what The Escapist used to look like.

(On the side, how AWESOME is the Archives website!)

I remember when the Escapist Magazine was a really clean and lean .. machine. It was a games magazine without the ads for light-speed graphics cards. It was a comic without ads about getting sand kicked in your face. It was TV without ads for beer and lotto and ..

Stopping now. I guess, what I loved about reading the Escapist, the old Escapist, was this:

It was like watching your favourite TV show on DVD. No ads. Nothing but the content you were reading.

It’s not any more (and it happened quite a while ago).

This is what The Escapist looks like now.

*Sings ode to lost but not forgotten things*

Tags: archives·the escapist magazine

4 responses so far ↓

1 Chris Charabaruk // Sep 5, 2008 at 2:44 pm

Hi Stu, thanks for linking to my blog. I wish you had used some kind of trackback system to give my site a ping, however — I just found out about this post now.
2 Stu Andrews // Sep 5, 2008 at 2:48 pm

Chris,

Thanks for dropping by.

Strange, I thought Wordpress would have taken care of letting you know.
3 Chris Charabaruk // Sep 5, 2008 at 3:02 pm

The trackback module for Drupal is strange in that it doesn’t throw into the page whatever is looked for by Wordpress or MT or other systems, and seems to rely instead on blog writers to manually copy and paste a particular URL from the page to the appropriate field in the blogger’s page editor. I don’t think the Disqus module (which I’m using now for trackbacks) fares any better, either.
4 Stu Andrews // Sep 5, 2008 at 3:05 pm

Yeah okay. I’m running IntenseDebate on another blog, and have made the decision to use it here as well.

Possibly it will be better at alerting people.