Hi all. No doubt you've been wondering if anything's happening with regard to the construction of a main site. Or not, maybe you've given up on ever seeing one, and that's okay too.

A new site is actually being planned. It's going to be very minimal and will draw from content posted on the forum. All sorts of content will be accepted. There's not going to be a push to specifically make Salt World a gaming site, or anything else. It will be what you make of it, and the barrier to entry will be very low: that's the general idea.

I've talked to a couple of people about their ideas for the site and it's nice to get suggestions. If you have any ideas, feel free to post them here or send them to me in private.

Unfortunately, the plan has been delayed somewhat due to my being sick for a while. Right now I'm just getting back into working full-time, and I've got a lot of catching up to do. Personally I'm aiming to get the design done in July (meaning the site will only have to be programmed).

Another relevant change will be that we're switching to a different forum software again. We'll be switching back to IPB (Invision) because, frankly, SMF just sucks. It can't even make password protected forums. Of course, all data will be maintained except for a small cutoff window.

will...will we finally have burger pips...

I lost the burger pips graphics (I think) but I still have the LEGO ones!~

Two posts.

It took just two posts and we're already talking about pips again.

WHAT HAVE YOU DONE ! ! ?

But seriously though!! Let's keep this topic a lil bit clean and open to a discussion about what you'd like to see on the new site.

so will it be more of a portal to the forum like Eurobricks?
The risk will still be that not having a specific focus, may be hard to get new people, but then maybe being able to showcase the members' creations would be the thing that gets people in.

Something like that but none of that horrible standardized crap, it will be custom built and tailored to suit exactly our needs.

Yeah, the thing is, I'm fairly convinced that previous attempts failed to work or gain traction because they were all very specifically aimed at making a game making site out of something that had long ago ceased to be about that. But that doesn't have to mean it will be an amalgam of random things. We should look at what we have, and what we are, and build something out of that rather than force ourselves into a direction.