Re: LiteStep Progress website

At 10:24 AM 8/17/2007, Alexander Vermaat wrote:
>"Lately there has been a rumor saying Litestep is dead / dying. People 
>claim no progress is being made and that soon no one will use it anymore. 
>Not only do these rumors annoy the heck out of Litestep developers and 
>users, it also discourages new people from starting to use Litestep.
>
>The LiteStep Progress website (http://lsp.litestep.info/) exists to prove 
>them wrong.

No offense, but it's going to take a lot more than this to "prove them 
wrong."  We need some organized, easy-to-find current information on 
Litestep if anyone beyond a very small niche group is going to know that it 
isn't long dead.  Easy to find?  The main three TLDs are a good place to 
start.  Litestep.com produces an error.  Litestep.net shows a basic page 
with virtually no info that demands that you sign up for an account and log 
in before you can see anything (the eight tabs on the top lead right back 
to the login page).  Litestep.org forwards to lsdev.org's news page - the 
last update is pretty recent, May 2007, but it's simply an announcement 
that the website will be undergoing major changes.  Prior to that, the most 
recent update is from 2005.

Google is another primary source.  The first four hits are for the three 
pages above and the Wikipedia article, which isn't very well done and 
doesn't have much on it to indicate that LS is alive and well.  Ls-universe 
has quite a few new postings, but they're all about module updates.  All of 
the links listed for LiteStep itself are similarly outdated or dead.

And if someone decided to try the .info domain, www.litestep.info doesn't 
have anything of substance on it.  It's an ad for people who want to use 
the litestep.info domain.  Good idea - how about a list of sites already 
doing so, including "lsp"?

With all due respect, this little hard-to-find website isn't going to tell 
anyone (aside from the people lingering on this list) that LiteStep isn't 
essentially dead and buried.  I don't think this link is even enough to 
convince everyone who is lingering on this list that LiteStep is not dead 
or dying (to anyone who isn't intimately familiar with Litestep, only one 
of the progress report items on the front page indicates any progress with 
Litestep itself).  Whoever owns the three primary "Litestep" TLDs need to 
step up to the plate (or transfer domain ownership to you or someone else 
who has an interest in convincing people that LS is still alive), and the 
various other sites need to start pointing to valid LiteStep resources.

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